Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEANWOOD

HEANWOOD, a place in Solihull parish, Warwick; near Solihull. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Ketelbern de Langdon; and was given, at the dissolution, to John Higford.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Solihull CP/AP       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Henwood

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