Baddesley Ensor Post Medieval Settlement

1 The probable extent of post medieval settlement based on the first edition OS 6″ map 0f 1888, 6SW.
2 The ridge and furrow plotting of the parish.
3 Baddesley Ensor is listed in Domesday; it was in Coleshill Hundred. The Phillimore edition has a grid reference of 2798.
Ref 17,16 William holds Baddesley Ensor. 2 hides. Land for 2 ploughs. 3 villagers 5 smallholders and 2 slaves with 1 plough. Woodland 1 1/2 leagues long and 1/2 league wide. The value was and is 10s. This William misappropriated a fifth part of this land in King William’s despite; one Brictric, who held it before 1066, lives there. Arkell and Ceolred, Thorkell’s men, held the rest of the land.
4 The first edition map shows thin settlement; there is a grid pattern of a main street with a N/S axis, crossed by lanes W/E, suggesting that there was once denser occupation. The village is bounded on the east by Baddesley Common, and the ridge and furrow plotting shows survival that abuts the village to the north and to the northwest, and more to the west but at a little distance. There is a known site of desertion to the northwest [WA127], and WA125 is the site of a medieval church.
5 The medieval settlement was to the north west of the present village. The curious street configuration of Baddesley Ensor today is a post-medieval phenomenon.