1 Tollhouse marked on the Banbury Road at its juntion with Gallows Hill. It is marked on the OS 1st edition 1″ map, and is pictured on a photograph ...
A toll house which was built in the Imperial period which served the toll road. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833 and is now a dwelling. It stands on the Banbury Road, Warwick.
Tom Wills, educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, was an Australian sporting genius. He created Australia’s national code of football; and was the central figure in Australia’s most compelling cricket story.
Born ...
John Sumner was born in 1807, the son of tea merchant, grocer and druggist William Sumner who owned shops in Birmingham and Coleshill.
His diary was gifted to the Warwickshire County ...
Reports of the riots generated by mechanisation in the silk-weaving industry reminded me that there are former silk-weavers’ homes to be seen locally. Here are three examples: two from Bedworth ...
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1 Famous topiary ‘Best Garden’ created on terraces south of house post 1886. Important example of revival of topiary work, became famous image of English garden. The garden was removed ...
The site of a topiary garden which was established during the Imperial period. The topiary garden has now been replaced by a rose garden but some of the original garden features remain. It is situated at Compton Wynyates House.
1 Excavation in 1933-48 of a 14th century building on the site of an earlier castle (PRN 2676). To the W the building overlooks the river, but on all ...
The remains of a medieval building, possibly a tower, were found on the site of Baginton Castle during an excavation. The tower had been built at a later date than the rest of the castle.
Sir Alfred Herbert acquired Town Thorns Manor at Easenhall in the late 1930s as place to which Coventry children could be evacuated in time of war, and gave it to ...
1 A track defined by a ditch and banks to the east of the Coventry Road, Halloughton is evident on aerial photographs mapped as part of English Heritage (EH) National ...
A track defined by a ditch and banks to the east of the Coventry Road, Halloughton is evident on aerial photographs
The two shocking fatalities at Harbury on Thursday and Friday last week, threw the usually quiet village into a state of great excitement.
The first refers to George Frederick Verney (27) ...
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Thomas Berry, a haulier, residing at Harbury, said that about 10 minutes to 11 on Thursday night, as he was going to bed, Mrs Verney came into ...
1 Letter states “I was also able to locate the site of the remote W/T transmitting station (Drwg No. 2070/40) 400m north of Bourton on Dunsmore village, off the B4453 ...
Site of remote W/T transmitting station.
Previously, I gave a brief background to my family’s Warwickshire ties. In this section, I would like to talk about feeling a connection to Scotland, England and Warwickshire, even though ...
1 There were three mills at Tredington in 1086 and at least one of them probably stood on this site. By 1649 only two mills are mentioned. Details of ownership ...
The site of Tredington Mill, a Medieval mill, known from documentary evidence. A later watermill was built on the site during the Imperial period. The site is located 100m south east of the church at Tredington.
