1 Gardens including mixed planting and an avenue of horse chestnuts, surrounding a Grade II Listed neo-Tudor stone house built later than 1886 (in the OS map of that date ...
Gardens at Avon Carrow surrounding a house built in the Imperial period. The gardens are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. They included mixed planting and an avenue of horse chestnut trees. The gardens cover an area in the south east of Avon Dassett.
When researching the Jensen brothers, I discovered that their second design, after the one based on the Austin Seven, used a Standard 9 chassis and running gear. This was later ...
I was born at what was then no.11 Main Street, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. My grandparent’s home was initially known as Pleasant Cottages, and later became no.1 Avon Cottages, Rugby Road, before finishing up ...
1 The probable extent of the Medieval settlement based on the first edition 6″ Ordnance Survey map, 52NE 1886.
2 Listed in Domesday in Hunsbury Hundred. Grid ref: 4150. Ref 16,5:-
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The probable extent of settlement at Avon Dassett during the Medieval period which has been identified on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
Returning to the course of the river Avon: there was a mill at Rugby worth 13s 4d in the Domesday survey. Rugby Mill continued as an active corn mill longer ...
1 This is located off Willenhall Lane, Brandon. A Bourne print shows a 15 fine arch masonry viaduct with nine wide elliptically headed arches. Flanked by battlemented buttresses ...
Avon Viaduct, a railway viaduct that was built during the Imperial period. It is situated to the south of Brandon.
1 Riverside pleasure grounds with mixed planting and walks and kitchen garden. In the 1930s was the home of Muriel Marston (wife of Dr HMC Crawford) who wrote two books ...
The gardens of Avonside House, which were created between the First and Second World Wars. The gardens have now been divided up, but are located to the south of Grange Road, Bidford on Avon.
1 OS Map.
2 Aylesbury House is a mid-late-18th century red brick building, facing south, of 3 storeys.
3 The front portion of Aylesbury House “… appears to be about 200-250 ...
Aylesbury House. The building dates to the Imperial period but incorporates the remains of an Medieval building. It is situated 700m north east of Hockley Heath.
A website dedicated to the history and aftermath of the Baddesley / Baxterley Pit explosion of May 1882. The story behind the explosion, the rescue attempts and the relief fund set up after the explosion.
Travel to Baddesley Ensor and Baxterley nowadays, and the area is the epitome of rural Warwickshire. Its mining heritage is not forgotten, however, even though the mine closed in 1989. ...
1 The semi-fortified manor house is surrounded by a moat.
2 Moat 65 M by 95 M. The ditch is 8 M to 12 M wide, is wet and has a ...
Baddesley Clinton Hall moat, a wide ditch surrounding the semi fortified Manor House. It dates to the Medieval period and survives as an earthwork. National Trust maintenance work has uncovered stone structures and a wooden sluice.
Baddesley Clinton is a moated manor house in the care of the National Trust with a fascinating history. On a recent visit I was entertained by musicians in Tudor costume ...
