The Reverend Nicholas Chamberlaine came to Bedworth in February 1664 and remained in office until his death on 14th July 1715. During his 51 years in what was then a ...
Nicholas Chamberlaine, rector of Bedworth, founded this almshouse in 1715. He declared in his will: ‘I, having no child, do dispose of my estate to the charitable uses following’. His ...
Warwickshire as a county is known for embracing the arts, and Shakespeare undoubtedly looms large over the county. He is, of course, not the only cultural icon associated with the ...
Southam had the second oldest allotments in Warwickshire, set up in 1824 on poor’s land. By the 1890s there was an active Allotment Association with 271 acres of allotments (1.7 ...
The location SP 314 752 is given as the site of a World War 2 heavy anti aircraft artillery. When I visited the site I could find no apparent signs ...
1 Marked as an ‘Independent Chapel’ on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886
2 Marked as a ‘Congregational Church’ on the Ordnance Survey map of 1924
A nonconformist chapel is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 and on the Ordnance Survey map of 1924 as a 'Congregational Church'. It is situated in Binton.
Sightings of strange big cats roaming about the wild places of England is not something one would expect in the rural idyll of South Warwickshire or the conurbations of the ...
