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Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire<\/a>, England<\/a>, eight miles north of Banbury<\/a>. At the 2011 census<\/a>, it had a population of 808. Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon<\/a> Fennig Cumbt\u016bn meaning “marshy farmstead in a valley”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1498, Sir William Cope<\/a>, who served as Cofferer<\/a> of the Household of Henry VII<\/a> from 1494 to 1505 (in the absence at that time of a Treasurer of the Household he carried out the duties of that office as well), was granted the Lordships of Wormleighton<\/a> and Fenny Compton, part of the lands of Simon de Montford<\/a> who had been attainted in 1495. He later sold the lands to the Spencer family<\/a>, later of Althorpe<\/a>. The Parish church<\/a> of St Peter<\/a> and St. Clare was built in the 13th century and is a Grade II*<\/a> listed building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenny Compton had two railway stations, Fenny Compton<\/a> on the Great Western Railway<\/a> route from Oxford<\/a> to Birmingham Snow Hill<\/a>, and Fenny Compton West<\/a> on the Stratford-upon-Avon<\/a> and Midland Junction Railway route from Bicester North<\/a> to Broom<\/a>. The GWR station and SMJ station were built alongside each other controlled by a joint signal box<\/a>. The Fenny Compton Railway Station (Great Western from Birmingham Snow Hill to London Paddington<\/a> and the London, Midland & Scottish Railway<\/a> branch line from Stratford-Upon-Avon<\/a> to Blisworth<\/a>) closed in 1964, apart from the railway line from Fenny Compton to CAD Kineton<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenny Compton was the home of Andrew and Kathleen Booth, computer pioneers in the 1940s who built a prototype electronic computer called All-Purpose Electronic Computer (APEC). That prototype led directly to the ICT 1200 computer, the UK’s first mass-produced computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village was struck by an F0\/T1 tornado<\/a> on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The village features in the 2024 TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office<\/a> about the British Post Office scandal<\/a> as the location for the first meeting of ex sub-postmasters and mistresses in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England, eight miles north of Banbury. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 808. Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Fennig Cumbt\u016bn meaning “marshy farmstead in a valley”. In 1498, Sir William Cope, who served as Cofferer of the Household of Henry … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fennycompton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}