A guide to Harvington
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Latest reviews | Events in Harvington The village of Harvington lies four miles north of Evesham close to the border with Warwickshire and half a mile from the River Avon. Of all the Vale of Evesham`s "black & white villages", Harvington can fairly stake a claim to being one of the best. Thatch roofs cover many of the sturdy Tudor cottages with square or slanting timbers; there are a few "cruck" houses identifiable by the inverted V of timbers at the ends. Harvington has had son wonderful identities in the past; Herefordtun-juxta-Avene in the 10th Century; Hervertun in the C13th and Heruyngton in the C15th: it is first recorded in Saxon charters of 709. The church of St.James has a Norman tower of about 1200, the oak shingled spire was added in 1855, a sturdy low arch, slightly pointed, leads from the tower into the nave.The plain tub Font is Norman. Opposite the church is the Coach & Horses serving spirits of another sort! The Manor House is a two storied house of stone and half-timber dating from the C14th but much altered in the C17th. A little way down is the Baptist Chapel a neat, late Victorian building. Down by the Avon is Mill House a Georgian red brick building, now a hotel. the former Railway Station has been converted in to a private dwelling with a railway coach in what is now the garden; the railway came to Harvington in 1866 and closed in 1962, part of the track-bed is now a section of the A441.