2 Linear features and enclosures show on aerial photographs.
3 Various sherds of coarse ware indicate a Roman settlement.
The site of a possible settlement dating to the Roman period. It has been identified from linear features and enclosures which are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Finds of Roman pottery have also been discovered at the site. It is located 350m north of Walton.
1 Turnpike road, established by Acts of 1779 onwards. Part of a route from Leicester, the original Acts for which were passed in 1753-4, but which proved too unwieldy to ...
A toll road running from Warwick to Paddle Brook. Travellers would have had to pay a toll to use the road during the Imperial period.
2 Very faint traces of a possible complex of cropmark features have been identified on air photographs. This comprises three circular cropmark enclosures, parts of two rectangular cropmark enclosures ...
Three circular enclosures, two rectangular enclosures and a short linear feature, all of unknown date, are visible on aerial photographs as cropmarks. The site is located 650m south of the church, Charlecote.
1 Chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene near the site of a hermitage (PRN 2233). In 1423 Richard, Earl of Warwick, was licensed to found a chantry in honour of ...
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Guy's Cliffe, Warwick. It was built in the Medieval period, possibly in the 13th century, and rebuilt in the 15th century.
1 Members of the National Vegetable Research Station at Wellesbourne have, over the past five or six years, found barbed and tanged and leaf-shaped arrowheads and scrapers in the fields ...
Findspot - flint implements, including scrapers and arrowheads (both leaf and barbed & tanged), dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, were found 1km north east of Charlecote.
1 Members of the National Vegetable Research Station at Wellesbourne have, over the past five or six years, found barbed and tanged arrowheads and scrapers in the fields of the ...
Findspot - flint implements including scrapers, arrowheads and knives dating to the Neolithic and the Bronze Age were found 1.2km north east of Charlecote.
It was a joy to read Alan Griffin’s article about RAF Gaydon, thanks for writing about it. I have great childhood memories. My dad was stationed there ’63-’66. He worked ...
On the present day B4086 Wellesbourne Road is Littleham Bridge. One evening in November 1820 William Hirons (or Hixons), a yeoman farmer from nearby Alveston, was on his way home ...
1 Exhibited a dozen specimens of flint chips, selected from a large deposit found from 1.8 to 3.6m below the level of the ground at Walton, in excavating the bed ...
Findspot - a flint core dating to the Neolithic or the Bronze Age was found 550m south of Walton.
1 Mr Griffin discovered c673 grammes of Roman pottery including Samian, Nene Valley, Oxfordshire colour-coated ware, mortarium, Severn valley ware and Wappenbury grey wares. Date range of Romano British material ...
The site of a settlement dating to the Roman period has been identified from finds of a vast quantity of Roman pottery. It is located 800m south west of Walton.
1 A gas pipeline was scheduled to cut a 24m swathe through a ‘triple ring ditch and henge monument’ at the above grid reference.
2 Excavation proved the features to be ...
The site of a Second World War searchlight battery. It was discovered during the excavation of a pipeline. It was situated 1km north west of Wellesbourne Wood, near Loxley.
1 One of a group of villa gardens consisting of pleasure grounds, walks and mixed planting. Recommended for inclusion on Local List.
2 OS 1:10560 1886 Sht Warks 44NE shows garden ...
A villa garden created in the Imperial period and associated with The Red House (previously called the Vicarage). The garden is marked on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1886 and of 1938, but with a slightly different area. The garden is situated 500m west of Tiddington on the Wellesbourne Road.
1 A three runway bomber airfield opened June 1942 as a satellite to RAF Chipping Warden but soon transferred to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. Major facilities included: two 1400 yard (1.28Km) ...
RAF Gaydon was a Second World War bomber airfield. It opened in 1942 as a satellite airfield to RAF Chipping Warden and later to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It is located 1.5km north of Chadshunt church.
In part one of this article, I gave an account of how the diary gives an insight into the everyday life of a daughter of the landed gentry. Among the events ...
1 At Frizhill, near Combrooke, there are distinct tumuli in Bowshot Wood.
2 Two miles from Moreton Morrell on the Foss Way is Bowshot Wood which contains a tumulus.
3 Bowshot Wood ...
Two round barrows, dating to the Bronze Age, are thought to have been located 700m from Compton Verney House, Compton Verney, in Bowshot Wood.
1 The possible extent of the Medieval settlement, based on the first edition 6″ map of 1886, 45SW.
2 The ridge and furrow plotting of the parish.
3 Domesday lists Walton in ...
The possible extent of the Medieval settlement at Walton in the parish of Wellesbourne. The area of settlement is suggested by the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 as well as documentary evidence.
With Britain’s nuclear capability moving from aircraft to the Polaris submarine in the mid nineteen sixties, the V bomber force became obsolete and Victor and Valiant training at RAF Gaydon ...
RAF Gaydon came into use in June 1942 initially as part of no 12 Operational Training Unit (OTU) operating twin-engined Vickers Wellington bombers crewed mainly by Canadians. Its primary function ...
One night in early 1940, my mother and her family we woken by Soviet soldiers. She was six at the time. They were told to gather their belongings and were ...
1 A JCB operator digging a drainage ditch at the edge of a wheat field found the head of a human skeleton in a trench 0.8m deep. The skull and ...
The site of a burial of unknown date. It was discovered 600m north west of Bath Hill Wood, Walton.
1 The grass field to the S of the house, called the Town Field, has been supposed to contain traces of Roman buildings. The Rev G Miller of Radway states ...
The site of a possible Roman settlement known from finds discovered over 100 years ago. It is now believed that the finds may have been Medieval, from the deserted settlement. Roman pottery has possibly been recovered more recently, 900m south of Walton.
1 A bronze boss was found at the same location as flint objects (PRN 1129) found while excavating for the bed of some ornamental water at Walton. The boss is ...
Findspot - a bronze boss from a sword of unknown date was found 550m south of Walton.
1 Two icehouses at Walton Hall (see also PRN 4903). The second icehouse is situated on the side of the lake. There is a well-defined and regularly-shaped mound covered with ...
The site of an icehouse dating to either the Post Medieval or the Imperial period. It is visible as a mound. It is situated 500m south of Walton.
1 An archaeological evaluation on land north of Charlecote Road, Charlecote uncovered the line of a boundary ditch of probable Iron Age date in the eastern side of the field. ...
An archaeological excavation discovered a boundary ditch dating to the Iron Age, as well as a sherd of pottery. The site is located 300m north west of the church, Wellesbourne.