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There must be many of our readers who have never been to Morton Bagot. It is on no main road and is hard to find without an O.S. map and an ability to read road signs. But it does exist and has done so before Domesday. The problem is that there is no main village, though before 1700 a small hamlet existed. Morton Bagot parish church of the Holy Trinity is a small building, dating from the 13th century when it was owned by Kenilworth Priory. The parish consisted of the manors of Morton Bagot and Netherstead, though these seem to have amalgamated: names associated with ownership of the manor are Bagot, Coningsby, Trussell and Holyoake. A few large farmhouses lie in the vicinity of the church but 'Netherstead' and Greenhill Farm are two which may have been the sites of manor houses. Church Farm, by the church, is also worthy of note.
Morton Bagot is a small parish, comparable with Spernall and Kinwarton and just as rural. A small stream which flows into the River Arrow once supported a manorial water-mill but modern maps do not show its site.