1 Leland records a ‘poore bridge of tymber’ which was replaced by Sir Hugh of Clopton (d 1497) by this great and sumptuous bridge. It has fourteen great arches of ...
Clopton Bridge, which dates back to the Medieval period. It was built in the 15th century to replace the earlier timber bridge. This bridge was made of stone with 14 segmental pointed arches. It was widened in 1814. It crosses the Avon at Stratford on Avon.
1 16th/17th century house renovated late 17th and early 19th century. Split into flats in 1982.
2 Attractive house with mid 17th century facade concealing an older structure, possibly built when ...
Clopton House, which was originally built during Post Medieval period. The house is 250m north east of Gilbert Close, Stratford-upon-Avon.
1 Clopton Tower. ?Early 19th century. Ashlar. A substantial octagonal tower of three stages, each lighted by one window, with parapet and finger turret.
2 Polygonal, with Tuscan columns and pediment.
3 ...
Clopton Tower, an architectural folly which dates from the Imperial period. It stands 140m north east of Dugdale Avenue, Stratford on Avon.
1 The ancient bridge of four arches stood immediately downstream of the existing one built in 1842.
2 The present bridge, of red sandstone with three elliptical arches, was built early ...
Cloud Bridge, a red sandstone bridge built in the Imperial period to replace an earlier bridge. It crosses the Avon 1km southwest of Bubbenhall Bridge.
My Dad worked there – he started off with a horse and cart with the milk when he was 17 and he later worked on the Co-op Mutuality Club (a ...
1 2 3 Coach and Horses public house, High Street, Coleshill.
Historic public house recorded on Pigot’s, F. White and Co.’s and Victuallers databases. The latter shows it in existence in ...
Historic public house. Now the Coach Hotel.
Young boys were employed in Warwickshire coalfields in the 18th and 19th centuries.
6d a day in 1729
A coal account book in the Newdigate archives refers to the use of boys ...
Canal barges parked for the week end on 28th January 1968.
This building is located on North Road Clifton on Dunsmore, and is unusual in having “cob walling”. The close-up shows its susceptibility to masonry bees (they burrow into soft stone ...
Warwickshire Museum holds a seed from the coco de mer palm tree and it is definitely worth a look as it is possibly one of the original specimens making up the ...
1 An ancient bridge. Although widened on the W in modern times it still forms a bottle-neck. It dates apparently from the mid 16th century and is ...
Coleshill Bridge which was built during the Post Medieval period. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and is situated at Cole End, Coleshill.
1 A manor house may have been located within the moat – see MWA289.
2 “Coleshill Hall Farm, on the north side of the Birmingham Road ¾ mile south-west ...
Possible site of a medieval manor house within the moat north-east of Coleshill Hall Farmhouse
1 The pillory stood in front of the Market Hall, which was demolished in 1865, when the pillory was moved to its present location. It has a post about 4.6m ...
Coleshill pillory, a wooden frame with holes for the offender's neck and wrists, which dates back to the Medieval period. The pillory also has stocks attached and acted as a whipping post. Originally situated in front of the Market Hall it is now on Church Street, Coleshill.
Below is what was read out at one of our vigils for one of our locals.
15th November 1915
Private Charles Peter Nevill, 22 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Private Nevill is remembered ...
Coleshill Chronicle 27th November, 1915
The sad news was received in Coleshill last Friday, November 19th, of the death at the front of Charles Peter Neville, of the R.A.M.C. The news came ...
On the 11th October 2014, Coleshill Remembers held its first vigil to commemorate the first local casualty of the Great War 100 years previously. An old boy of the St ...
The building of Coleshill Town Hall was completed on 28th November 1925 by John Sumner. His family made their fortune through the Typhoo tea brand, and in 1930 the newly knighted ...
Coleshill parish Workhouse was established in Blythe Road in 1750 (the row of cottages at the left-hand end of the first photo above); it was intended for up to 44 ...
