Sawbridge

Sawbridge is a tiny hamlet in Warwickshire, England. It is 4 km north-west of Daventry and 8 km south of Rugby. The Grand Union Canal and Rains Brook run nearby as did the now-defunct Great Central main line railway track. Sawbridge does not have two of the most common features of the English village a public house or a church. It does, however, have a telephone box. In 1689 an old Roman water well was discovered in the village which contained a dozen or so Roman urns.In the twelfth century Sawbridge was held by Thorney Abbey: a decree of Henry I survives ordering the tenant to restore the manor to the Abbot " and do not let me hear any complaint about injustice".