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Mancetter

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Also known as Mancetter, Warwickshire

Mancetter is a village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, England, where Watling Street crosses the River Anker. The population was 2,339 at the 2011 census. It is contiguous with the town of Atherstone, on the B4111 road towards Hartshill and Nuneaton.

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Place details

Locality
North Warwickshire
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Key facts

UK place.official_name
Mancetter
UK place.static_image_name
St Peter's Church, Mancetter Road, Mancetter (NHLE Code 1365169) (August 2025) (8).jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
St. Peter's parish church
UK place.civil_parish
Mancetter
UK place.os_grid_reference
SP3296
UK place.population
2449
UK place.population_ref
(2001 census)
UK place.shire_district
North Warwickshire
UK place.shire_county
Warwickshire
UK place.region
West Midlands
UK place.country
England
UK place.post_town
Atherstone
UK place.postcode_district
CV9
UK place.postcode_area
CV
UK place.dial_code
01827
UK place.constituency_westminster
North Warwickshire and Bedworth
UK place.website
Welcome to Mancetter Parish

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Mancetter is a village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, England, where Watling Street crosses the River Anker. The population was 2,339 at the 2011 census. It is contiguous with the town of Atherstone, on the B4111 road towards Hartshill and Nuneaton.

==History== In Roman Britain, a posting station was built along Watling Street close to the river crossing, and a rectangular earthwork of this is still extant. The much larger legionary fortress of the Legio XIV Gemina was built here by about 50 AD, before the legion moved to Wroxeter in about 55. Around the fortress grew the settlement of Manduessedum. Mancetter has been suggested as a possible location of the Defeat of Boudica, between an alliance of indigenous British peoples led by Boudica and a Roman army led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, although the exact location is unknown.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mancetter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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