1 Attached to the Order of Fontevrault. Founded between 1155 and 1159. The community consisted of sisters and brothers, living apart, but meeting in the church for common worship. The ...
The site of the Priory of St. Mary which was founded during the Medieval period. The site is located 50m west of Manor Court Road, Nuneaton.
Several private lunatic asylums were set up locally in the 19th century for those who could afford to pay. These private asylums were much smaller than the Hatton County Lunatic ...
1 Large conjoined rectangular enclosures extending into at least three modern fields with traces of smaller features and a drove road (?).
2 Various Aerial Photographs
3 Undated, but on morphological grounds ...
The site of a possible settlement dating to the Roman period known from enclosures, linear features and a possible trackway. The features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is located 700m north west of Hampton Lucy church.
Some of the photography archives at Warwickshire County Record Office are going to be the centrepiece for a new creative project with the public and volunteers, devised by artist Faye Claridge.
(continued from the Master Bakers of Coventry)
The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
I do still go round Coventry city centre, which has changed a bit from my time as a student. The old fire station is still there, by Pool Meadow bus ...
Sir Thomas Puckering (1592-1637) owned the Priory in Warwick, now the site of Warwickshire County Record Office. He was the MP for Tamworth and Sheriff of Warwickshire, and his memorial ...
1 2 Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa.
Lovie reports an area of sunken lawn with walks, tree/shrubbery and walks and was the first public open space in Leamington (1814) formed as ...
First public open space in Leamington (1814). Walks, lawn and tree/shrubbery planting.Recommended for addition to Register by Lovie.Recommended Listed Building Status for cast-rion arches by Lovie.
1 This area is called ‘Quarry Close’ on a map of 1597. There is also a ‘Pit Close’ in the field on the opposite side of the Stoneleigh ...
The site of a quarry which was in use during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It is marked on maps dating to 1597 and 1766. The area of quarrying is still visible as an earthwork and is located 250m west of Stareton.
1 A stone quarry pit was found during an archaeological observation. It corresponds to the use of the site as a stone yard depicted on a map of 1806.
An old stone quarry pit dating to at least the 18th century.
Queen Ethelfleda, or Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, was the daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred the Great. At the time of her birth in the late ninth century, England was ...
Queen Victoria’s impact on the county of Warwickshire was profound. An obvious example is that in 1838 she was successfully lobbied for Leamington Spa to use the word ‘Royal’ as ...
HM Queen Elizabeth II has just become the longest serving monarch of Great Britain, passing the record previously set by Queen Victoria who reigned for over 63 years and seven ...
Roger has questions about the past history of the woods around Corley.
Stone tower mill with batter built at the beginning of the 19th century. It had three storeys, wooden machinery and two pairs of stones. By the 1870s it had ceased working, ...
