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Ettington Park
Ettington Park
Ettington Park is a spectacular neo-Gothic mansion situated six miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon in the picturesque Stour Valley. Behind the impressive mid-Victorian Gothic exterior of the house we see today lies a very complex building and family history of the Shirleys. They are one of Warwickshire’s oldest families whose lineage, can be traced back over a thousand years to the Domesday Book of 1086 and beyond. Archaeological evidence also indicates that the site has been a centre of human habitation for at least 2,000 years. Roman coins, brass ornaments and large quantities of pottery have been unearthed and it is quite possible that a Roman villa existed on the site. The fact that the great Roman road, the Fosse Way, passes through the neighbouring village of Halford also makes it very probable. The name Ettington, originally spelt Eatendon and later Eatington is derived from the old English or Anglo-Saxon words, “Ea” meaning water and “Don” meaning ascending ground or meadow. The name itself gives us a very precise description of the site as “ascending ground or meadow near a river.”