Cardington

== Situation ==
=== Saxton Map: Carditon ===
OS. Map
Cardington sites on rolling hilly land shelted on the NW, West, and South sides, by hills. Enchmarsh stands 1km north of it, higher up into the ridge hills of the Wilderness and the Lawley. Gretton sits about 1km to the east. To the south, Willstone hill, Cardington hill, and Sharpstones wrap around it, from Caer Caradoc & Hope Bowdler Hill.
== History ==
===Domesday===
4 Land of [{Earl Roger]]
4,3 Holding of Reginald the Sheriff under Earl Roger
In Culverstone Hundred
4,3,44 Cardington (Cardintvne). Austin and Another Austin held it before 1066 as two manors. 5 hides. In lordship 1 plough; 5 slaves; 15 villagers and 1 rider with 7 ploughs between them; a further 8 ploughs would be possible there. Woodland, 2 leagues. Value before 1066, 40s; now as much.
=== Post Domesday ===
== Church ==
St James' church, in the centre of the village, is long roofed, partly Norman, and partly gothic.
== Castle ==
== In Game ==
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