1 Soon after 1757 Samuel Greatheed built a new and larger house on the site of the old house (PRN 2234). Later alterations and additions have obscured this house except ...
Guy's Cliffe House, a ruined building dating to the Imperial Period. It is situated on the outskirts of north Warwick.
1 A building known as the Deer House. It backs onto a small wood. Photographs were taken in 1980 and by 1981 it had collapsed. The building was 19.8 by ...
The site of Deer House, now a ruined building. The house was built during the Imperial Period. It lies close to the southern weir between Goodrest Farm and Fox Covert.
1 When the old manor house of Goodrest Lodge (WA 2558) was pulled down a new one was built outside the moat in 1784. It was further modified in ...
Goodrest House, which was built during the Imperial period. It replaced Goodrest Lodge (WA2558), which was pulled down. The house lies approximately 1.5km west of Leek Wootton.
1 Not marked on a map of 1719. The pond may have been constructed after this. It is part of the extensive grounds of Wootton Court, which was built ...
A fishpond used for the breeding and storing of fish. It is visible as an earthwork and dates to the Imperial period. It is situated 200m south east of Wootton Court, Leek Wootton.
1 Tollbar marked at the V-junction between the road to Leek Wootton and Hill Wootton.
2 The N most roundabout of the Warwick bypass now covers this area.
Documentary evidence indicates that there may have been a toll gate at the junction between the Leek Wootton / Hill Wootton roads. The site is now covered by the northern most roundabout on the Warwick bypass.
1 Brick Kiln Close marked. Field names come from Tithe Apportionment map 1748.
2 This document could not be located in the County Record Office, but an 1822 Award (without plan) ...
The site of a possible brickworks dating to the Imperial period. An eighteenth century tithe map marks a brick kiln close at a location to the east of Wedgnock Rifle Range.
1 Lime Kiln Close marked. Field names come from Tithe Apportionment map 1748.
2 This document could not be located in the County Record Office, but an 1822 Award (without plan) ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a lime kiln dating to the Imperial period. The site was 200m west of Blacklow Hill.
1 Quarry Close is recorded on the Annotated Map, and a note says this information came from a Tithe Apportioment from the CRO from 1748. No trace of this document ...
Documentary evidence suggests that there may once have been a quarry at this location. The site is located at Middle Woodloes Cott, just north east of Warwick.
1 Leek Wootton Vicarage garden, Leek Wootton.
Lovie reports drive, terrace, formal gardens, paddock with boundary planting.
Some 19th century planting remains at time of Lovie’s report (1996/7) but he states that ...
Formal gardens, terrace, paddock with boundary planting.
1 Two separate rubbish dumps containing 18th/19th century pottery and bottles were found during an archaeological observation.
An archaeological investigation showed that there were dumps of 19th and 20th century rubbish at this site. No evidence for a Medieval settlement was found. The site lies behind houses on Hill Wooton Road, Leek Wooton.
(Continued from part one)
So it was, on Tuesday 11th June 1861 the train which had passed over the bridge less than an hour earlier fully laden, left Leamington Spa station ...
With today’s interpretation of the Health & Safety laws it is easy to forget the rather laxed attitude towards H&S that prevailed in times past. Unfortunately, this was an attitude ...
Warwickshire County Record Office holds many fine collections relating to Warwickshire’s landed families; they are treasure troves which never fail to fascinate and surprise the reader. The Waller Family of ...
At the time George Wise inherited Woodcote he was unmarried, and at the age of 53, already had another home in Surrey. He died in 1888 and the family estates ...
Between 1832 to 1843 there was an ongoing correspondence between Anna Jarrett and her brother Wathen Waller. She was the wife of John Jarrett, the owner of broad acres in Somerset and ...
My dear Father
I received your letter of the 21st November. I hope that you all spent a happy Christmas. I have no doubt you did, I suppose that you had ...
In 1851, Henry Christopher Wise sold the Warwick Priory and 37 acres of its parkland to the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Co, which planned to lay its railway track through ...
In January 2016 Leek Wootton History Group received an email from a book and photograph dealer that read:
I have recently acquired an album of photographs with a dedication in the ...
The massacre at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, occurred on 16th August 1819, at a meeting of 60,000 people gathered to hear the orator Henry Hunt talk on electoral reform. The meeting ...
1 A sandstone cross on Blacklow Hill marks the place where Piers Gaveston was beheaded in 1311.
2 1832 by J C Jackson. Heavy short cross on a high pedestal of ...
A sandstone cross marks the spot where Piers Gaveston was beheaded in 1311. The cross was erected during the Imperial period and lies on Blacklow Hill, north of Warwick