1 In 1460 and 1467 patents were granted to a London draper named Henry Waver. He appears to have been a native of this village, which had twelve messuages in ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Cestersover. The settlement is known from documentary evidence. It was situated 1km north west of Churchover.
When I am not working at Warwickshire County Record Office I have to admit to an obsession about chairs!
When did my obsession start?
This started about eight years ago, when I ...
1 A chantry chapel existed at Upper Eatington (Ettington) in the Middle Ages; after the Dissolution it was converted into three houses for the poor, and as such it was ...
A Medieval chantry chapel. Traces of the chapel still remain in the structure of a cottage at Ettington.
1 Archaeological recording took place at Chapel End Methodist Church prior to the building being sold for refurbishment as a dwelling. Three distinct phases of build were discerned, the original ...
Chapel End Methodist Church, built in 1887. The chapel is located at Chapel End, Nuneaton.
1 Chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene near the site of a hermitage (PRN 2233). In 1423 Richard, Earl of Warwick, was licensed to found a chantry in honour of ...
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Guy's Cliffe, Warwick. It was built in the Medieval period, possibly in the 13th century, and rebuilt in the 15th century.
23 Church site identified. Church Meadow. It was demolished in the mid 19th century.
4 The church is recorded at the time of King John (1199-1216). It is also recorded in ...
The site of the Chapel of St Peter. The remains of the chapel are visible as an earthwork and are known from documentary evidence. It was demolished and rebuilt on a new site during the Imperial period. The site is situated 750m south of Bishopton Hill.
The bakery closed on August 1st 2008 after trading for 110 years, and had been run by four generations of the Pails family. It was established in 1898 when Alfred Hugh ...
1 According to Dugdale, the house was built in the first year of Elizabeth I’s reign (1559-60). The house was originally made up of a main block one room ...
Charlecote Hall, a Post Medieval (Tudor) house at the heart of Charlecote Park. The house lies 350m south west of St Leonards Church.
On a recent visit to Charlecote Park I watched people in Victorian costume at work in the kitchen.
Ragging
One was ‘ragging’ – making new items from recycled pieces of material. You may ...
The mill as you see it was probably built in the 18th century, but on the site of earlier mills. A mill at Hampton Lucy is even mentioned in the ...
1 In 1086 a mill is recorded. References also occur to this mill in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries. The mill operated until the early 1950s and restoration of ...
Charlecote Mill, a watermill recorded in the Domesday Survey and in written sources from the Post Medieval to the Modern periods. The present building dates to the 18th century, with two undershot water wheels, and two sets of milling machinery. It was restored in 1978.
1 Listed as a deer park. Acreage – 253 acres.
2 Deer represented on a drawing of the house and grounds dating from 1722. The present park is 210 acres with ...
The site of a deer park and formal gardens at Charlecote Hall which date from the Post Medieval period. An illustration from the 18th century shows parterres and avenues in the formal gardens that were recreated during the 19th and 20th centuries.
1 Charlecote House was begun in 1558 for Thomas Lucy; at this period the house was surrounded by formal gardens and a deer park. The park was remodelled by Capability ...
A landscape park dating to around 1757 and designed by Capability Brown, though some redesigning was undertaken in the 19th century. The features include a ha-ha, clumps, a lake and a lodge. Kitchen garden. Charlecote Park is marked on the Ordnance Survey maps from 1886.Recommended to review Register entry by Lovie.
