To enhance and protect the Abbey Fields in Kenilworth for the enjoyment of the local and wider community, in co-operation with Warwick District Council.
Community group of people who use or have used the Eagle Rec in Leamington, and care about its maintenance, reputation, plants, and wildlife.
Foundry Wood is a managed access community woodland. Through volunteer work parties we have made the site accessible by creating paths and facilities for all to use. Now the woodland is open most days for you to enjoy this unique natural environment.
The Friends were founded in 1988 and charitable status was granted a year later. Our aims are to support the work of our County Record Office and promote the education of the public through the use of historical records.
1 A Meeting of Quakers was probably founded as a result of visits to Warwick by George Fox in 1655 and 1656. In 1671 a house in High Pavement was ...
A Society of Friends' Quaker Meeting House dating to the Post Medieval period. It is still in use for worship, and is situated in the High Street, Warwick.
1 A meeting was in existence by 1673 in which year a conventicle held at the barn of John Halford was the cause of George Fox’s last arrest and imprisonment. ...
A former Society of Friends' Quaker Meeting House dating to the Post Medieval period. It is located 200m south of Middle Street, Armscote.
1 Friends’ Meeting House. Built by Nathaniel Newton the younger c1729. Extended in the early 19th century, closed in 1846 and has since been used as a workshop. Brick with ...
The site of a former Society of Friends' Quaker Meeting House of Post Medieval date which was situated on Long Street, Atherstone.
1 In 1850 there was a Friends Meeting House in Brailes, said to have been erected in the time of their founder, George Fox.
2 The original building was constructed c1684. ...
The site of a chapel which was built during the Post Medieval period. A new chapel was built on the same site during the Imperial period and continued in use until the 1930s. The chapel was situated 100m south of the school at Lower Brailes.
1 Built 1740 to replace a meeting house of 1720 which had been destroyed by rioters; a new meeting house was erected nearby c1972 and the former building has been ...
A Society of Friends' Meeting House, which was originally built in the Post Medieval period. It was later converted into a house. It is situated at Hartshill Green.
1 Friends’ Meeting House, in the lane SE of the Church. Built in 1670. A plain three-bay house.
2 Erected in 1684 as a Quaker chapel. The Friends’ burial ground adjoins.
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A chapel dating to the Post Medieval period which is situated 150m south east of the Church. It is no longer in use as a place of worship.
1 Former Friends’ Meeting House built 1702-3. Meetings ceased in 1851 and a few years later it was sold and converted to a cottage with the addition of a wing ...
A Society of Friends' Quaker Meeting House, built in the Post Medieval period. It ceased being a place of worship in 1851, and was later converted to a house. It was located in the area of The Green at Radway.
1 A meeting-house given to the Quakers in 1669 was superceded by one on the present site in 1722. This building, which records suggest may have been rebuilt c1768, stands ...
A Methodist chapel dating to the Post Medieval period stood on this site until it was replaced by a later building during the Imperial period. The site is located on Keys Hill, Baddesley Ensor.
I was born and brought up in Clapham Square, one of ten children. Sadly, one of my brothers George was drowned in the canal with a friend when he was ...
Dancing had always been my passion – much to the chagrin of my headmistress, at King’s High, Miss Hare – and although I eventually had a professional dancing career and ...
Reuben Lynch is believed to be Britain’s first black toastmaster. With the arrival of The Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in Summer 2022, Heritage & Culture Warwickshire talked to Reuben about ...
I originally grew up in Uxbridge Avenue, Willesden before being evacuated to Brinklow in Warwickshire when I was 7. I was born in 1932 and lived in a two-up and ...
Fulke Greville (1554-1628) is one of the most notable Warwickshire figures from the age of Shakespeare. A prolific writer of love sonnets, he also experimented with new literary genres, including ...
Let all that is sweet is, void; in me no mirth may dwell:
Philip, the cause of all this woe, my life’s content, farewell
This is an from elegy to Sir Philip ...
As we have seen, Fulke Greville and Philip Sidney shared a close bond.
Another friend to both Sydney and Greville was the poet, courtier and (alleged) alchemist Sir Edward Dyer. He ...
My Lord Brooke beinge but uppon same daye com to towne, and resolving to goe downe this daye fore Warwicksheare as he told me hime selfe, was arrested heance by ...
1 A mill of red sandstone and brick. The mill race is said to date from Monastic times, but the house is not of great age.
2 There was a ...
A watermill which was built from red sandstone. It was constructed during the Post Medieval period and is situated at Furnace End.
