Maxstoke
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| Population | 270 (2021 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SP235868] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BIRMINGHAM |
| Postcode district | B46 |
| Dialling code | 01675 |
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| Police | Warwickshire |
| Fire | Warwickshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
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Maxstoke is a hamlet and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, England.[2] It is situated approximately 2.5 miles north of Meriden. Maxstoke and the parish of Maxstoke were established in the hundred of Hemlingford. The population of the parish was 270 at the 2021 census.
Maxstoke Priory
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Maxstoke Castle
To the north of Maxstoke, about halfway towards Shustoke, is Maxstoke Castle. It was built by Sir William de Clinton, in 1345. It is of a square plan with a broad moat. Additions were made by Humphrey Stafford who acquired it in 1437 by exchanging it for other manors in Northamptonshire.
Railway
Maxstoke railway station was opened on Maxstoke Lane and was on the Stonebridge Railway line. It connected Birmingham New Street with Derby and Hampton-in-Arden. The station had closed in the 1930s along with the connection line. The site of the platform and sign can still be seen today. It was also located near the town of Coleshill.
Handley Page O/400 crash
On 19 August 1918 a Royal Air Force (RAF) Handley Page O/400 from No. 14 Aircraft Acceptance Park RAF took off from Castle Bromwich Aerodrome on a test flight.[3][4] While flying over North Warwickshire, the pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed into a field at Maxstoke, killing all seven crew on board.[3] The pilots were Canadian Lt Robert Edward Andrew MacBeth and Lt Frederick James Bravery. The other crew members were air mechanics Charles William Offord, J. May, Albert J. Winrow, H. Simmons and G. Greenland.[3][4] MacBeth and Simmons were buried in St. Michael's Church graveyard.[4] The cause of the accident was determined to be loss of control due to wing failure when the aircraft lost fabric from a wing. It was the deadliest accident involving the new Royal Air Force at the time.[3][4]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Maxstoke Parish in West Midlands". City Population. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 139 Birmingham & Wolverhampton (including The Black Country) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319231753.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Military crashes in the south west Midlands – 1918". Aviation Archaeology. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Michael Walpole (August 2014). "Maxstoke's silent witnesses to casualties on the home front". Coleshill Past WWI Centenary Edition. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
External links
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