1 A mill is recorded in 1086 and again in 1315. In 1844 a small needle-pointing mill was built onto the existing corn mill. Both sets of machinery were operated ...
Hoo Mill, a watermill used for grinding corn from the Medieval period onwards. During the Imperial period it was used as a needle mill. Many of the mill buildings are still standing and it is also known from documentary evidence. It is located 500m south east of Kinwarton.
1 The Rugby workhouse was sold in 1818 because it was too small and a House of Industry for 130 paupers built at a cost of £1000. The building is ...
A workhouse that was built during the Imperial period. The workhouse buildings were later used as the Hospital of St Luke. It is situated on Temple Street, Rugby.
1 Largely a brick building smothering a 17th century timber framed house, with tile roof. The shop is a 20th century addition.
A timber-framed house dating to the Post Medieval period which has been re-faced with brick. Later additions to the building are modern. It is situated in Church Road, Warton.
This picture of a document from Warwickshire County Record Office is a sleight of hand (or mouse!). Does it have a worth, though?
Small beginnings can be important. A chance remark at a lecture to a well-established evening class at Warwickshire County Record Office in the autumn of 1988 was the starting point ...
Humphry Repton was a distinguished landscape gardener; born in 1752 he died in 1818 and so his life and work are being celebrated nationally in this year of his bicentenary. Where his ...
1 A good bold bridge, over the Leam, with buttresses of the usual character but exceptionally massive. It has three arches over the stream, and one dry arch at each ...
Hunningham Bridge, originally Medieval, but the present structure is mostly Post Medieval with later repairs. It crosses the River Leam 400m north of the church.
1 A Permanent Starfish site (‘Starfish’ from Special Fires). Fire based decoys were set up following the bombing of Coventry in November 1940 to protect urban areas, in this case ...
The site of a fire based bombing decoy installation from the Second World War known as a Starfish. Night time fires were created to confuse enemy aircraft and to draw them away from their real target. Documentary evidence gives this grid reference 900m SW of Hunningham.
