Thurlaston cottages (front views) facing down the row to Pudding Bag Lane. The add-on was a wash house.
1 A large 3 storey (2 storey plus attics), stone building of c1600 altered and added to during the reign of Queen Anne and refronted on the west later in ...
Tidmington House, a manor house dating to the Post Medieval period. It is located 300m north east of Tidmington.
1The possible extent of Medieval settlement, based on the first edition 6″ map of 1886, 53SE.
2The ridge and furrow plotting of the parish.
3 Domesday lists Tidmington under Worcestershire, in Oswaldslow ...
Probable extent of Medieval settlement in Tidmington as indicated on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 and from ridge and furrow earthworks on aerial photographs.
I have been carrying out a small private survey of timbered buildings in Warwick and was struck by the similarity in style of The Tudor Inn on West Street and ...
Our group of 6 to 12 year olds from Warwick schools will become Time Travellers, spending a week exploring everything from fossils to robbers.
1 VCH entry.
2 A 17th century timber framed barn with brick infill. Now a garage.
4 Negative archaeological observation at tithe barn.
A tithe barn built from timber and brick which is Post Medieval in date. It is situated 60m east of Bridge Street, Polesworth.
Gully pots are necessary for road drainage and flood prevention. They can, however, be death traps for amphibians. Each year large numbers of amphibians, both adults and juveniles, fall into ...
It was on 22nd March 1916 at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien married Edith Mary Bratt. Edith had converted to Catholicism in order to ...
1 Turnpike house/toll house marked.
2 This cottage would have been constructed in the spring of 1762. The gable end of the toll gate cottage facing the road is almost certainly ...
A toll house, where travellers would have paid a toll to use a toll road. It was built during the Imperial period and is situated 400m south of Monwode Lea.
1 Tollhouse marked on the Banbury Road at its juntion with Gallows Hill. It is marked on the OS 1st edition 1″ map, and is pictured on a photograph ...
A toll house which was built in the Imperial period which served the toll road. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833 and is now a dwelling. It stands on the Banbury Road, Warwick.
Tom Wills, educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, was an Australian sporting genius. He created Australia’s national code of football; and was the central figure in Australia’s most compelling cricket story.
Born ...
John Sumner was born in 1807, the son of tea merchant, grocer and druggist William Sumner who owned shops in Birmingham and Coleshill.
His diary was gifted to the Warwickshire County ...
Reports of the riots generated by mechanisation in the silk-weaving industry reminded me that there are former silk-weavers’ homes to be seen locally. Here are three examples: two from Bedworth ...
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1 Famous topiary ‘Best Garden’ created on terraces south of house post 1886. Important example of revival of topiary work, became famous image of English garden. The garden was removed ...
The site of a topiary garden which was established during the Imperial period. The topiary garden has now been replaced by a rose garden but some of the original garden features remain. It is situated at Compton Wynyates House.
1 Excavation in 1933-48 of a 14th century building on the site of an earlier castle (PRN 2676). To the W the building overlooks the river, but on all ...
The remains of a medieval building, possibly a tower, were found on the site of Baginton Castle during an excavation. The tower had been built at a later date than the rest of the castle.
Sir Alfred Herbert acquired Town Thorns Manor at Easenhall in the late 1930s as place to which Coventry children could be evacuated in time of war, and gave it to ...
The two shocking fatalities at Harbury on Thursday and Friday last week, threw the usually quiet village into a state of great excitement.
The first refers to George Frederick Verney (27) ...
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Thomas Berry, a haulier, residing at Harbury, said that about 10 minutes to 11 on Thursday night, as he was going to bed, Mrs Verney came into ...
Crimes were originally divided into less serious ‘misdemeanours’ and more serious ‘felonies’. Felonies included murder, treason, rape, assault, and stealing anything worth more than a shilling. (This was raised to ...
Previously, I gave a brief background to my family’s Warwickshire ties. In this section, I would like to talk about feeling a connection to Scotland, England and Warwickshire, even though ...
1 There were three mills at Tredington in 1086 and at least one of them probably stood on this site. By 1649 only two mills are mentioned. Details of ownership ...
The site of Tredington Mill, a Medieval mill, known from documentary evidence. A later watermill was built on the site during the Imperial period. The site is located 100m south east of the church at Tredington.
