A website for those who are interested in canal and river boatmen. Uses newspaper articles to detail the lives and work of canal boatmen, and aims to help those trying to trace their canal ancestors.
1 First recorded in 1258. The park was held with the manor of Spernall in 1328 and recurs in the manorial rolls of the C17, in 1640 being described as ...
Spernall Park, the site of a deer park dating from the Medieval to the Post Medieval period. Part of the park pale is visible as an earthwork. It is situated east of Shelfield.Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 1195-1361 the village was largely depopulated by pestilence, so that many villein tenements came into the hands of freemen.
2 The village consists of the church (PRN 549) ...
The site of an area of shrunken village at Spernall dating from the Medieval to the Post Medieval period. The remains of the village are visible as earthworks. Medieval pottery has been found at the site during archaeological work.
The Spicer family were successful and well-known Warwickshire taxidermists during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Warwickshire Museum collection includes many examples of their taxidermy, especially the work of ...
Spon End Building Preservation Trust (S.E.B.P.T.) is the organisation behind Black Swan Terrace and the Weaver’s House. We are a community organisation and a registered charity run by volunteers.
Most of this has been told to me by my Dad who lived in Stockton, and has been passed down via his parents, grandparents and other ancestors. My uncle (Mr. Syd ...
1 Spread Eagle Inn, Polesworth.
Historic inn recorded on Victuallers database which shows it was in existence by 1801. Situated in the High Street opposite the gateway to Polesworth Abbey, in ...
Historic inn opposite gate house to Polesworth Abbey.
Spring has come and with it the wonderful sight of bluebells in the ancient woodlands of Warwickshire. A few are in the path of HS2, but most will survive to ...
Hidden away on the kind of typical ’30s terraced street you find all over Coventry, is St Catherine’s Well. It’s a small stone chapel building on a raised platform, also ...
St Cuthbert’s Church stands by the Fosse Way in the small village of Princethorpe. It was consecrated for worship in 1959 and used regularly until the last service was held ...
This almshouse was founded by Miss Marianne Phillips in the 1860s as a hostel for 12 poor, unmarried women. She left a £2,000 endowment for the almshouse. It was built ...
St Emmanuela’s was a HORSA classroom, short for ‘Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-leaving Age’. These pre-cast concrete classrooms were constructed soon after World War II and were ...
On the road going from Wixford to Bidford-on-Avon is a turn to the left called, “George’s Elm Lane”. According to local legend St George was buried by the roadside, near ...
This particular churchyard is a very rich site for wildflowers with other 100 species being identified – some of which are quite rare for this part of Warwickshire. It was ...
A church has stood on the site for over 800 years. The original building was probably wooden and replaced by the present stone chancel and nave in the late 13th ...
On a lovely sunny day Saturday following a week of horrible grey and drizzly weather, we decided to visit the picturesque village of Offchurch, a few miles from Leamington Spa, ...
After looking around the outside of the church, including the excellent “Living Churchyard”, we went inside. The Millennium window is just stunning – it was installed to mark the millennium ...
St John the Baptist, Berkswell, is a Norman parish church containing one of the finest crypts in the country. The church is a Grade 1 Listed Building and is featured ...
