Haseley Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Haseley
Static Image Name:Haseley.jpg
Static Image Caption:A house in Haseley Green
Coordinates:52.3088°N -1.6637°W
Label Position:top
Civil Parish:Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall
Population:207
Population Ref:(2001 census)
Shire District:Warwick
Shire County:Warwickshire
Region:West Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Warwick and Leamington
Post Town:WARWICK
Postcode District:CV35
Postcode Area:CV
Dial Code:01926
Os Grid Reference:SP2332867653

Haseley is a small village and former civil parish in Warwickshire, England. It is four miles north-west of the county town of Warwick and nine miles (14.5 km) south-east of Solihull, now in the parish of Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall, created on 1 April 2007.[1] The village is on the A4177 and, as it is only five miles (8 km) from the M40 motorway, is easily accessible . Haseley proper, along with Haseley Knob, Haseley Green and Waste Green, consists mainly of detached houses spread over a large area, giving the parish a very low housing density. The 2001 census recorded 207 residents living in 92 dwellings. Due to its relative affluence and proximity to the tourist towns of Warwick and Stratford upon Avon, several large and highly rated hotels are situated around the village.

Haseley Manor, a Grade II-listed country house, formerly the staff college for the British Motor Corporation and its nationalised successor British Leyland,[2] now consists of luxury apartments.[3] The parish church, St Mary's, is medieval in origin and revealed evidence of its original decoration during restoration work some years ago.

Haseley Hall

Haseley Hall was the home of Sir James Sawyer from 1890 to 1919. After his death, his executors sold the house to a Birmingham company, W and T Avery, to use as a club for their employees.[4] Eventually finding the house too far from Birmingham, the company sold it in 1927 to Warwick Corporation for £6,350 (£4,000 less than the council's finance committee had expected to pay).[5]  [6] [7] The Corporation wanted the estate because the Warwick water works lay within its bounds. They had no interest in the house, which they considered demolishing.[8] However, in 1929, they leased it to a charity to use as a children's convalescent home.[9] In 1975, the Severn-Trent Water Authority sold the house to the Leamington Housing Association, which turned it into thirteen flats.[10] [11] [12] In 1994, the association offered the house for sale at a guide price of £200,000. The buyer turned it into seventeen luxury apartments.

Notable people

Job Throckmorton (1545-1601), a Puritan campaigner, lived at Haseley. In June 1589, he and John Penry installed a printing press in his house to print three "Marprelate tracts" attacking the episcopacy.[13]

Sir James Sawyer lived at Haseley Hall from 1891 to 1919.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Warwick (Parishes) Order 2007. Local Government Boundary Commission for England. 10 November 2022. 6 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221106122956/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/12726/the-warwick-parishes-order-2007.pdf. dead.
  2. Web site: Nicholls . Ian . History : The complete BMH story - Part One . AROnline . 21 July 2019 . 11 March 2013.
  3. News: Knowsley . Jo . Historic Hasley Manor in Warwickshire is having a makeover . 21 July 2019 . Metro Newspaper UK . 19 November 2018.
  4. News: 26 July 1919 . W. and T. Avery . 3 . Smethwick Telephone.
  5. News: 23 July 1927 . W. & T. Avery Limited, Annual Meeting . 7 . Smethwick Telephone.
  6. News: 8 July 1927 . Haseley Hall Estate . 10 . Coventry Herald.
  7. News: 18 November 1927 . Oken's Feast, A Good Stroke of Business . 3 . Leamington Spa Courier.
  8. News: 16 June 1928 . Future of Haseley Hall. . 8 . Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser.
  9. News: 13 September 1929 . Haseley Hall . 9 . Leamington Spa Courier.
  10. News: 27 February 1975 . Haseley Hall . 59 . Coventry Evening Telegraph.
  11. News: 9 February 1980 . Sheltered plan will help all . 29 . Birmingham Mail.
  12. News: 14 April 1994 . Haseley Hall . 28 . Birmingham Daily Post.
  13. Throckmorton, Job . 56 . Lee . Sidney . Sidney Lee . 329-330 . 1.