1 Large factory c.1880 representing last phase of needle manufacture in the Alcester/Studley area. A building of three storeys, 20 by 5 bay, red brick structure. Has tall ...
Minerva Needle Works, a factory where needles were manufactured during the Imperial period. It was situated in the area of Priory Road, Alcester.
As you may know, we have been setting up the digital space for our remote volunteers to begin transcribing the compensation registers in our collection.
1 The original coal wharf for Atherstone was constructed around 1771. The basin, E stable block and large warehouse date from this time. This is the best surviving example in ...
The site of Minions Wharf, a canal wharf and basin where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods. It was constructed during the Imperial period and was situated 50m west of Coleshill Road, Atherstone.
This minute book documents the activities of the Warwick Statute Fair Ox-Roasting Committee. The committee was a small voluntary group of men which met regularly each year between September and ...
I recently visited the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Astley during the heritage open days (I also visited Astley Castle next door, but there are several posts on ...
Clara and Louisa Cheap were born in India in 1802 and 1803 respectively. India was their home as their father John worked for the East India Company from 1782 until ...
This is an account of the papers of Eleanor Archer; a local lady whose records are held at Warwickshire County Record Office, reference CR 367.
An educated woman
Miss Archer was born ...
1 OS Map.
2 Close to Earlswood Lakes Station is an isolated moat, of which about two thirds contains water.
3 Very little is known of Forshaw, sub manor of Solihull. All ...
A moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It dates to the Medieval period, and may have been associated with a manor house. It survives as an earthwork and is situated just east of Earlswood Lakes Station.
1 The site of the manor house (PRN 1567), a small inclosure surrounded by a moat.
2 The remains of a homestead moat are extant at the published site. Adjacent to ...
A Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It is visible as an earthwork and is situated 100m north of Kinwarton Church.
1 Behind Court Farm are the remains of two moats. The second moat lies a little to the N, enclosing an area some 50 paces square. The ramparts are steep ...
One moat of a doubled moated site probably associated with a manor house. Of Medieval date, it may represent a different stage of building to its other half. It is situated 300m south of the right-angle bend on the Sherbourne to Hampton Lucy road.
1 Moat marked.
2 An ornamental/landscaped moat in a neglected condition. The causeway is of 19th century brickwork and the whole would appear to be of that date.
3 The site has ...
The site of a moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It dated to the Medieval period, and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1906. The moat is no longer visible as an earthwork. It was situated 100m south of All Saints Church, Stretton on Dunsmore.
1 A near square homestead moat, the S and W arms of which are waterfilled, the remainder dry. The enclosed area is now occupied by two buildings and there is ...
The site of a moat, a wide ditch surrounding a building, which dates to the Medieval period. It is still partially visible as an earthwork, and is situated 500m east of Black Waste Wood at Stoneleigh.
1 Moat marked.
2 A substantial homestead moat with a lead-in drainage ditch to the N. The island is densely tree-covered; no building foundations were noted.
3 The moat is very overgrown ...
A Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building, is still visible as an earthwork. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The moat is situated 150m southwest of St Nicholas's Church, Willoughby.
1 Small entrenchment situated on level ground which slopes away at a short distance on several sides. The remains consist of little more than a ditch enclosing an irregular oblong ...
Aerial photgraphs and traces of earthworks, suggest that this is the site of a Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It is situated 450m west of Long Spinney, Upper Radbourne.
1 A ‘mansion’ is recorded at the beginning of the reign of Edward I (1272-1307). It is not improbable that the moat to the W of Bushwood Hall marks the ...
A moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building, of Medieval origin. It is visible as an earthwork, though overgrown. It is situated 600m south of Bushwood Lane, Lapworth.
1 A large homestead moat of considerable strength. The site is overgrown and has been mutilated in places by modern works. Possibly the site of one of the manor ...
A double moat, wide ditches surrounding a building. The moat survives as an earthwork and is probably Medieval in origin. It is situated at Baxterley Church.
