Henry VIII had previously stayed at Warwick Castle from at least Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th September 1511. He was to return to the castle for a second visit thirty ...
Henry Wise was about 37 when he inherited Warwick Priory in 1810. Five years before this he had become the Vicar of St. Gregory’s Church, and continued there until his ...
The Archaeology collections represent over 500,000 years of human activity in Warwickshire. From axes of the Early Stone Age to Tudor hair pins, the Museum collects and presents the stories of our ancestors through the evidence they have left behind.
This collection consists of domestic and working life objects featuring items used in the homes and workplaces of Warwickshire people from the 18th century to the present day.
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire’s geology collection comprises approximately 16 000 rock, mineral and fossil specimens of local, regional, national and international provenance. The main strengths of the collections lie in Warwickshire specimens, notably Triassic vertebrate fossils and Lower Jurassic fossils in general.
The collection is founded upon a historic collection of plant specimens, taxidermy, insects and shells, inherited from the 19th century collecting activities of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society.
No, this isn’t an episode of Breaking Bad, and metheglyn isn’t some illicit substance! It is, in fact, a name for spiced mead which derives from two Welsh terms for healing ...
Having done our prep, we started the mead-making process in earnest. This will be fairly familiar to anybody who has made wine before, so I won’t go into detail here, ...
The Warwickshire County Record Office has, naturally, a vast array of recipes within its archive. Mary Wise’s cookbook is well-known, but there are many other culinary delights dating from the 16th ...
Esther (‘Hester’) Jackson Jones was born in Grendon. She was baptised in Grendon on 14th April 1816. Only the mother is identified in the baptismal register.
Hester married Joseph Dester of Bramcote in ...
Look at some of the houses in West Street, and the brick frontages hint at the type of properties to be found elsewhere in Warwick after the Great Fire. Further ...
1 From the outside this house seems modern but there is timbering in some of the exterior walls. There is also a timbered barn. Occupancy of this site ...
Parts of this house date to the Post Medieval period and there is also a timber framed barn. It is situated at High Cross, Rowington.
1 A stone-built dovecote is situated within Hillborough DMV (PRN 1728). It is about 24ft dia externally and the walls are about 1 yard thick inclusive of the stone ...
Hillborough Dovecote, a building used for housing pigeons or doves. It is of Post Medieval date and is situated south of Hillborough Manor.
John William Joseph Vecqueray, the founder of Hillbrow School, handed over to Thomas Bainbridge Eden (b. 27.4.1845), who brought with him his small school, Orwell House, from Clifton upon Dunsmore, ...
1 Large 19th century brick farmhouse with tiled roof and original windows. It is associated with farmbuildings of late 18th century date. Fine early petrol pump in yard ...
Hillcrest Farm, a farmhouse that was built in the Imperial period. It is situated on Maypole Road, Warton.
A Rootes product, but ironically never built in Rootes territory in Coventry and Warwickshire, the Imp was built at a new factory in Linwood, in Scotland. Nonetheless, Rootes was a ...
1 In the upper village of Hillmorton are the remains of a 14th century stone cross. It has a graduated and moulded base about 0.21m high, above which is a ...
Hillmorton Cross, a Medieval cross that is situated on the High Street.
While browsing the census records for Hillmorton in search of my family home, I couldn’t help but get drawn into the other names and families that surrounded them.
Bricks and sandpits
For example, in the ...
1 The wharf at Hillmorton is shown on OS 25″. However, there are buildings and limekilns on the opposite bank and the wharf is shown unusually on the towpath ...
Hillmorton Wharf, the site of a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located on the east side of the canal between Kilsby Lane and the railway line.
