Compton Wyniates, Warwickshire

Description
Compton-Wyniates or Compton-Winyates, a parish in Warwickshire, at the boundary with Oxfordshire, 5 miles ENE of Shipston-on-Stour, and 6 S of Kineton. Post town, Kineton, under Warwick; money order office, Tysoe; telegraph office, Shipston-on-Stour. Acreage, 1039; population, 22. The property has all belonged from the time of Edward I. to the Comptous, now represented by the Marquis of Northampton, and it gives to the Marquis the title of Earl. Compton-Wyniates House, a seat of the Marquis, is a picturesque edifice of the time of Henry VIII., built then out of the ruins of Fulbrooke Castle, and restored under the superintendence of Wyatt. Henry VIII. visited Compton here, and Charles I. passed the night here before Edgehill. It lies so hidden in an abrupt hill-screened hollow as to have been popularly called Compton-in-the-Hole. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Tysoe, in the diocese of Worcester; joint net value, £150. Patron, the Marquis of Northampton. The church was destroyed in the Civil War, and rebuilt after the Restoration, and has been the burial-place of several of the Compton family.