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A Village in Worcestershire , England , Tardebigge was once a much greater Township including much of modern Redditch . The village is most famous for the Tardebigge locks, a flight of 30 Canal Lock s that raise the Birmingham And Worcester Canal over 220 feet (67 metres) over the Lickey Ridge . It lies in the Traditional County of Warwickshire . Records of the Parish , recorded twice in a Will as Anglo-Saxon ''æt Tærdebicgan'', begin in the late 10th Century . Tardebigge was bought by the Dean of Worcester for his Church from King Ethelred The Unready . In the later Dark Ages there were battles fought between Ethelred's son Ironside and the Cnut the Dane . The name ''Tærdebicga'' (whose Dative Case is ''Tærdebicgan'') does not appear to have any likely meaning in Anglo-Saxon or Celt ic or any other likely known language, and may be a stray survival from whatever aboriginal language was spoken in England before the Celts came. In the 12th Century , the parish was granted to Bordesley Abbey , a Catholic Monastery . For three hundred years the area remained in the Church's possession. In 1538 the Catholic Church was Disestablished by King Henry VIII , and the area became the possession of the Crown . In a personal deal, Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor , and therefore to the stewardship of the Earl Of Plymouth , who took a seat Hewell Grange (now a prison) adjacent to modern Tardebigge. The land was gradually managed and sold off by the Earl; it was not until the mid 19th Century that the parish of Tardebigge began to dissolve and the modern boundaries began to appear. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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