HODNELL, (Warwickshire) or HODENHULL, near Ladbrook, and the source of the Ichene. It was once a large populous T. and had
a Ch. Great part of the manor bel. formerly to the mons. of Nun-Eaton and Combe. At the Diss. William Catesby, son of Sir
William, obtained that part of it which bel. to the mon. of Combe; the other part was purchased from the crown by John
Spenser and Thomas Brauncefield, who sold it to Tho. Wilkes, a merchant of the staple. It came afterwards by marriage to
Erasmus Dryden, father of Sir John. There is a handsome large house here built by the Rayneys, who had an estate here, and
enlarged by the late John Mead, Esq;.