The first Earl of Warwick to experience the effects of slavery first hand (whereas previous Earls had experienced slavery at a distance) was also the same Earl to be listed ...
This marriage licence is for the very aptly named Henry Valentine Mills and his spouse Frances Georgianna Miller. It dates from the 18th January 1917 and granted the couple permission ...
After his progress through the Midlands, Henry VIII stayed at Warwick Castle from at least Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th September 1511. Henry’s royal progresses lacked the fanciful extravagance of his ...
In 2015, a portrait of King Henry VIII, painted by the studio of Hans Holbein during the lifetime of England’s most iconic king, was sold by Merlin Entertainments at Sothebys ...
Henry VIII had previously stayed at Warwick Castle from at least Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th September 1511. He was to return to the castle for a second visit thirty ...
Henry Wise was about 37 when he inherited Warwick Priory in 1810. Five years before this he had become the Vicar of St. Gregory’s Church, and continued there until his ...
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No, this isn’t an episode of Breaking Bad, and metheglyn isn’t some illicit substance! It is, in fact, a name for spiced mead which derives from two Welsh terms for healing ...
The Warwickshire County Record Office has, naturally, a vast array of recipes within its archive. Mary Wise’s cookbook is well-known, but there are many other culinary delights dating from the 16th ...
Esther (‘Hester’) Jackson Jones was born in Grendon. She was baptised in Grendon on 14th April 1816. Only the mother is identified in the baptismal register.
Hester married Joseph Dester of Bramcote in ...
Look at some of the houses in West Street, and the brick frontages hint at the type of properties to be found elsewhere in Warwick after the Great Fire. Further ...
1 From the outside this house seems modern but there is timbering in some of the exterior walls. There is also a timbered barn. Occupancy of this site ...
Parts of this house date to the Post Medieval period and there is also a timber framed barn. It is situated at High Cross, Rowington.
A sketch map of part of Woodcote drawn in c.1815 shows High Wood adjoining Kenilworth. A high Wood was named in 1633, but at that time was part of ...
Medieval Woodland ajoining Kenilworth
1 A stone-built dovecote is situated within Hillborough DMV (PRN 1728). It is about 24ft dia externally and the walls are about 1 yard thick inclusive of the stone ...
Hillborough Dovecote, a building used for housing pigeons or doves. It is of Post Medieval date and is situated south of Hillborough Manor.
John William Joseph Vecqueray, the founder of Hillbrow School, handed over to Thomas Bainbridge Eden (b. 27.4.1845), who brought with him his small school, Orwell House, from Clifton upon Dunsmore, ...
1 Large 19th century brick farmhouse with tiled roof and original windows. It is associated with farmbuildings of late 18th century date. Fine early petrol pump in yard ...
Hillcrest Farm, a farmhouse that was built in the Imperial period. It is situated on Maypole Road, Warton.
A Rootes product, but ironically never built in Rootes territory in Coventry and Warwickshire, the Imp was built at a new factory in Linwood, in Scotland. Nonetheless, Rootes was a ...
1 In the upper village of Hillmorton are the remains of a 14th century stone cross. It has a graduated and moulded base about 0.21m high, above which is a ...
Hillmorton Cross, a Medieval cross that is situated on the High Street.
1 Hillmorton House/Gorse Houe, Ashlawn Road, Rugby.
Drive, pleasure grounds, pools, kitchen garden.
Lovie reports that a house was recently built on N part of grounds.
Drive, pleasure grounds, pools, kitchen garden.
While browsing the census records for Hillmorton in search of my family home, I couldn’t help but get drawn into the other names and families that surrounded them.
Bricks and sandpits
For example, in the ...
1 The probable extent of the medieval settlements based on the OS first edition map of 1887, 28NE and the second edition of 1887, 28SE.
2 Domesday has 5 entries for ...
The probable extent of the medieval settlement at Hillmorton based on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887.
1 Pleasure grounds, walks, kitchen garden, paddock with boundary planting.
Lovie reports that most of site developed with flats and car park at time of survey (1996/7). Some mature trees on ...
Villa with pleasure grounds, kitchen garden, paddock. Site mostly developed now.No recommended action by Lovie.
