1 Probably late 17th century but may embody earlier fabric, an irregular 2 storey house in stone with dressed angles and stone surrounds on windows. Older core to the ...
The Manor House, a stone house that was built during the Post Medieval period. One of the doorways dates to the Imperial period. The house is located in Butlers Marston.
1 This is not the original Manor House (see WA 3133) but a fine building of the 16th century to 17th century, altered in early 19th century. Of two storeys, ...
The site of a manor house dating to the Medieval or Post Medieval period with later alterations. It is situated at Church Hill, Stretton on Dunsmore.
1 Farmhouse. Early/mid 18th century, probably with earlier origins, with early/mid 19th century alterations. Flemish bond brick with limestone string course and rusticated alternating quoins; return sides have brick dentil ...
The Manor House, a farmhouse which was built during the Imperial period. It is situated 100m south west of the church at Willoughby.
The Manor of Hunningham has a history going back a thousand years. This characteristic makes it of great historical and scientific interest in the context of studies on the history ...
The Jurassic rocks of southern and eastern Warwickshire have yielded many fossils over the last two hundred years, including the skeletons of ichthyosaurs – dolphin-like ‘fish-lizards’ made famous by Mary ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
A number of accounts of Warwickshire folklore include tales of a strange booming sound heard in the vicinity of the village of Mickleton. The source of this noise was reputed ...
Does anyone else remember looking over the Mill Suspension Bridge at all the money that had been thrown on to the steps of the weir below?
A pre-decimal practice
This was in ...
After reading the article Hillmorton in the 1880s, I thought I’d share what I have found out by using the censuses – a real trip back in time ! I’ve ...
(continued from part one)
The trial of James Hayward for the murder of Ann Tennant was held three months after the inquest, at Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday ...
On Christmas Eve 1998, I took delivery of a large brown envelope postmarked Southport. Inside was a copy of the death certificate of my great-great grandmother Ann Tennant. I knew ...
On the evening of 15 February 1886, PC William Hine left home in Fenny Compton for duty on patrol around the “George and Dragon Inn” where a cattle auction was ...
In the middle of Nuneaton parish churchyard lies a substantial flat stone memorial to the mid 19th Century clergyman, Canon Robert Savage. The tombstone, like so many in our graveyards, ...
In the previous section, I looked at the chiefs’ time in Nuneaton. This section concludes the story.
Savage’s son Alfred, who would have been 12 years old when the chiefs arrived, had ...
In part one, I gave the background to my hunt for George Mandyoli Konah Macomo. In this section, I deal with his time in Nuneaton.
Sir George Grey’s decision to send these ...
The Dugdale Society launched its latest publication on Monday: The Newburgh Earldom of Warwick and its charters: 1088 – 1253, edited by David Crouch with an introduction and appendix by ...
It is always an awkward feeling when research dispels the myth of a much loved local treasure.
On display in the Great Hall of Warwick Castle is a small and delicate ...
This record1 shows the plan and proposed time scale for closing the North Warwick Colliery in 1965. This process was thought to take nine months and involved removing and dismantling machinery, ...
Joan Cockram may have been born in Tamworth, but her life and career saw her crossing the border to Warwickshire. Indeed, her own family history was closely tied up with ...
Last weekend also saw open days for Astley Castle. Now, Astley has featured on these pages fairly regularly, so yours truly decided to visit. What’s significant when there is how ...
1 17th century timber framing in gables, otherwise rebuilt modern brick.
The Old Hall, a Post Medieval manor house. It retains timber framing of this date in the gables. It has been rebuilt in brick in a later period. It is situated 300m north east of the church, Hunningham.
1 This house was never the Manor House (and was previously known as Ivy Cottages). It was the home of the Tibbetss family who occupied this property in 1548 ...
A timber framed house dating from the Post Medieval period it once had two wings but the most southerly was demolished at an unknown date. It is situated 400m south west of Turner's Green.
My grandparents Henry and Amy Robbins lived in part of the old mansion buildings which stood on the site of the present Mansion Close until it was demolished in 1964. ...
1 Built for a Presbyterian, later Congregational church (now United Reformed Church) formed in 1686, for which the first known meeting house was registered in 1705. The present building was ...
The Old Meeting House, a meeting house which was originally built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated off Chapel Street, Bedworth.
Southam minted its own coins in mediaeval times because local people found ordinary coins too high in value for everyday use. The old mint house was built in the early ...
