Hunningham. Church

Hunningham church. 1910s

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1910-1919

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I’d love to know the age and history of Hunningham church.

By Vera Craig (18/08/2018)
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Hi Vera – If you look on this website under ‘Location’ then ‘Hunningham’ then scan down to the photographs and click on the 4th black & white one of ‘Church of St Margaret, Hunningham’ you will find ‘Notes about this historic site’ that tell you more about it. And if you want to know what it looks like today there is a colour photo in my article ‘Saving a German Pilot’, also on this website.

By Anne Langley (23/08/2018)
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Thank you Anne. Very interesting.

By Vera Craig (25/08/2018)
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There used to be a private mental hospital in Hunningham. In about 1850/1860 an old woman came home one night in a state of near collapse. She had walked past the church yard and said that the dead had come back to life and were playing leap frog over the gravestones! It turns out that it was in fact some of the patients from the mental hospital, who had managed to escape.
Source: “Rural Romance: Quaint Tales of Old Warwickshire (Shakespeare’s Country)” by T B D Horniblow

By Gary Stocker (07/03/2022)