also called Henry Eyryk III
- Birth: 1216
- Death: 1272
Brother Henry Eyryk
Great grandfather: Eric the Forester (14)
Mother:
Spouse: Lady Eyryk of Great Stretton
Children:
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- Sex: M
Biography Notes…
Of Great Stretton and of Houghton, County of Leicester. “(temp. Henry III, 1216-1272 )”(from Knowltons, 1897, and “A Genealogical Register” by Gen. Jedediah Herrick)
Great Stretton (Stretton Magna) is now an abandoned little town.
To the west of Little Stretton village, lies a deserted medieval village called Stretton Magna (or Great Stretton).
Gartree Road, a Roman Road, runs through the parish, adjacent to both Little and Great Stretton, and is the reason for those settlements’ names (see: Stretton).
In 1919, the village gained a certain notoriety as the location of the Green Bicycle Case, the killing of Bella Wright.
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Parish Church
St Giles’ Church, Great Stretton
The church of Little Stretton is the Chapel of Ease, St Clement, Stretton Parva (in the parish of St John the Baptist, King’s Norton, Leicestershire)
This is the church in the town:
Details
The monument at Stretton Magna is situated south of the Roman Gartree Road, 5km east of Leicester. It includes extensive earthworks of a deserted medieval village with a moated site, two fishponds and part of the associated field system, located around the medieval St Giles’s Church.
The site occupies two large modern fields and covers an area measuring over 300m square. A series of hollow ways up to 0.75m deep denoting village streets cross the site, the most prominent of which measures up to 10m wide and leads from the east to the church. There are many small crofts and tofts marked by house platforms and enclosures containing banks about 0.5 high and a larger house platform measuring 25m square situated between the church and the road. A boundary ditch runs west of the church, beyond which is medieval ridge and furrow ploughing aligned in two directions which give an indication of the cultivated strips and are thus an integral part of the monument. A manorial complex is located to the south of the village, the major component of which is a rectangular moated site. The moat measures 70 x 60m including an outer bank on the eastern and southern sides and contains a ditch up to 2m deep and 10-12m wide. Situated to the north and south-east of the moat are two fishponds. The northern fishpond is embanked and measures 35 x 12m and is 2-3m deep from the top of the banks. The second fishpond also measures 35 x l2m but is not embanked and survives as a marshy area fed by a ditch coming down from the north.
Stretton Magna, known as Great Stretton, is listed in Domesday book. In 1381 there were 21 taxed persons. Some enclosure took place shortly before 1500 by Thomas Kebell but the major enclosure which led to depopulation was between 1640-70.
The church and its surrounding burial ground which remain in active use, are not included in the scheduling.