Catherine-de-Barnes

Catherine-de-Barnes
Catherine-de-Barnes
	Catherine-de-Barnes Location within the West Midlands
OS grid reference	SP179803
Civil parish	Hampton in Arden;
Metropolitan borough	Solihull;
Shire county	Warwickshire;
Metropolitan county	West Midlands;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SOLIHULL
Postcode district	B91, B92
Police	West Midlands
Fire	West Midlands
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Meriden and Solihull East;
	List of places UK England West Midlands 52°25′13″N 1°44′18″W / 52.42040°N 1.73822°W

Catherine-de-Barnes (known to locals as Catney) is a small village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands. It is situated about 2.25 miles (3.6 km) east of Solihull town centre, in the civil parish of Hampton in Arden, and 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Hampton village. Population as taken in the 2011 census can be found under Bickenhill.

The National Exhibition Centre is 3.25 miles (5 km) to the northeast of the village and Birmingham Airport lies 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north.

History

Its name originates from Ketelberne, the man who owned it after the Norman Conquest in 1066. However it is mainly a later settlement probably dating from the building of the Grand Union Canal there and the present St Catherine's church, now a village hall, was built by Joseph Gillott in 1879.^[1]

Isolation Hospital

In 1907, a "fever hospital" was built in Henwood Lane as a joint operation of the Solihull and Meriden Councils for isolating patients with infectious diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid fever and smallpox. In 1978, Janet Parker, the last known victim of smallpox in the world, died here.^[2] The hospital closed in the mid 1980s and in 1987 was converted to residential use.^[3]

Governance

Catherine-de-Barnes was split between the unparished area of Solihull and the Hampton in Arden civil parish until 2019, when it became a ward of Hampton in Arden, to which the part in the unparished area was transferred.^[4]

Transportation

The main road passing through the village is the east-west B4102 Hampton Lane/Solihull Road from Solihull to Hampton in Arden. The north-south B4438 Catherine de Barnes Lane starts 250m east of the village, leading past Bickenhill, over the A45 to the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International station all of which are just 3 miles to the north.

The main bus route through the village (from 28 August 2022) Stagecoach 82 which operates hourly Mon-Sat between Coventry and Solihull.

References

^ Plaque on the front North-facing wall of St Catherine's Church
^ Tucker, Jonathan B. (2002). Scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox. New York: Grove Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-8021-3939-6.
^ Toxic Shock; Twenty five years ago a disease that many thought was dead and gone reared its head in Birmingham: smallpox.
^ "The Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Parish of Hampton in Arden) Order 2018" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

External links

Media related to Catherine-de-Barnes at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Plaque on the front North-facing wall of St Catherine's Church

[isbn0-8021-3939-6-2] Tucker, Jonathan B. (2002). Scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox. New York: Grove Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-8021-3939-6.

[Toxic-3] Toxic Shock; Twenty five years ago a disease that many thought was dead and gone reared its head in Birmingham: smallpox.

[4] "The Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Parish of Hampton in Arden) Order 2018" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

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