1 This may have been one of six mills in Stoneleigh recorded in the 16th century. It is thought to have ceased working in the mid 19th century. On the ...
Pipes Mill, a watermill which was in use from the Post Medieval period onwards. The mill building has now been converted into a dwelling. The mill is marked on a map of 1725. It is situated 1km north of Stoneleigh.
2 A number of linear crop marks and pit alignments show on aerial photographs running in various directions.
3 It was reported that part of this cropmark complex is recorded as ...
The site of a Prehistoric pit alignment and a possible cursus monument. They are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The pit alignment and cursus are located 600m north west of Knightlow Hill.
Pit Ponies were used in mining from the mid 18th Century to the late 20th Century, with the last pit pony leaving the mines of Ellington, Northumberland in 1994. At ...
Before 1947 there were some gruesome stories of how pit ponies were treated. Warning: these stories contain graphic accounts of animal cruelty.
Ticknell Spinney as presently mapped is substantially the same as it was mapped circa 1830, a triangular spinney with one face bordering the road from Stoneleigh to Cubbington. In the ...
This highly detailed map (by William James and Assistants) illustrates the properties owned by the Earls of Warwick in Warwick at the opening of the nineteenth century. It is presumed ...
I used to play in the crater when I was a child, that must have been about the early ’50s. That crater was around the back of School Street, the ...
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Before dinner we took it in turns to fetch the put up tables from the air raid shelter across the playground. In winter they were put up ...
The Plaza opened on 30th January 1933 to There Goes the Bride starring Jessie Matthews and Owen Nares, work having started on the site in May 1932. Being renamed the ...
I have lived near Bishop’s Tachbrook, for many years and have been researching my house’s history for a considerable time. When studying the 1887 25” Ordnance Survey map for the ...
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 Parish church of St Editha consists of a chancel, nave, N aisle and porch, and a tower N of the chancel. The nave is of the first half of ...
The parish church of St. Editha which is Medieval in date. The church was associated with Polesworth Abbey. It is located 200m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
A Medieval gatehouse.
1 The gatehouse stands to the N of the W end of the church. It is of two stories. The walls are of rough ashlar, except over the ...
A gatehouse associated with Polesworth Abbey which is Medieval in date. The walls are constructed in ashlar except over the gateway where they are of timber. The gatehouse is located 200m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
1 Polesworth Bridge is dated 1776.
2 A bridge of ten arches over the River Anker. Apparently Medieval, entirely encased in brick.
3 The bridge has ten semicircular arches and bears and ...
Polesworth Bridge over the River Anker was first built in the Medieval period. It is situated on Bridge Street, 225m north west of Abbey Green Park, Polesworth.
I think you may find these two photos interesting.
They are both of the Polesworth Church Lads Brigade. The first one includes a band, which was probably brought in to mark ...
I was Officer in Charge at the fire station. This was built on the site of the Chetwynd Arms. This was built by one of the Chetywnd baronets for the ...
1 Building in two blocks, the back being a house and the front a shop. The front section is two stories high, but has a balcony around the inside ...
A market place, a two-storey building built in brick that dates to the Imperial period. It is situated on Market Street, Polesworth.
1 A documentary study of Polesworth Vicarage shows the existing house to have been rebuilt in the early 1870s, incorporating some 16th century elements. A description and history of the ...
Polesworth Vicarage, which was built during the Imperial period. The building incorporates some Medieval elements. It is situated 200m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
