Oldberrow

Oldberrow is a village in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England. The parish was part of Worcestershire until 1896, when it was transferred to Warwickshire, into which county it penetrated, between Morton Bagot and Ullenhall, as a narrow strip some long by about ½ mile wide. It is now part of the parish of Morton Bagot, Oldberrow and Spernall which in the 2001 Census had a population of 153. The land slopes from at Oldberrow Hill in the north-west to about in the south-east. There is no village, but the church, rectory, and the Court lie at the crossing of four small roads.

== History == Its name first appears in 709 when Cenred of Mercia gave in Oldberrow to Bishop Egwin towards the endowment of his newly founded monastery at Evesham. The spelling at this time was Ulenbeorge meaning either "the hill of the owl" or "Ulla's hill". It has gone through many variations of spelling, Oleburgh in the Domesday Book, Ullebury in the 1332 Subsidy Roll, then Owlburough, Uleberga, Oldborough, Oldbarrow and Oldburrow. The hill is about from the church and was described by Treadway Nash as an ancient tumulus In 1086, it was still held by the church at Evesham and is recorded; In Fishborough Hundred... In Oleburgh (Oldberrow) are of land. 2 countrymen, pigmen. Woodland, 1 league. Value 5s.