1 Chancel with N vestry, N aisle, S aisle, N porch and W tower. The remains of the Saxon church consist of the range of windows above the nave arcades, ...
The Church of St Gregory, which was built during the Early Medieval period, around 800 AD. The church underwent various alterations in later centuries. It is located 275m south east of the Tredington Post Office.
1 Mainly C14-C15. Chancel, nave, N and S aisles and porches, and W tower with spire. Rich in detail but severely restored 1868. Important monuments and C12 font.
2 There was ...
The Medieval parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul which is located 100m east of High Street, Coleshill.
2 A mill is known to have existed at Alveston since 966 and in the Domesday survey there were three mills. In 1240 there were two mills and a mill ...
Alveston Mill, the site of a watermill for which there is documentary evidence from the early Medieval period. Derelict by 1886, it was demolished in the 1940s. Only a weir survives. The mill was 400m north east of the church.
1 A mound at SP33077235 is likely to be the Hundred mound of Motslow.
2On modern OS maps this is shown as a quarry.
The site of a mound which is visible as an earthwork. The mound may have been the Post Medieval meeting place of the hundred of Motslow. It is situated 400m south of Stoneleigh.
1 Site of the medieval and post medieval settlement of Freasley, Polesworth. Settlement has 17th and 16th century houses. The village extrends to the S in a more disorganised way. ...
Buildings of 17th and 16th century with an extension South onto the Green.
1 Three fields centred on the above location are called “Little Mill Field, “Mill Field Mead” and “Great Mill Field”.
2 This field is now under plough and apart from ...
The possible site of a watermill of unknown date. The site is suggested by field names and lies 100m west of Ansty Waste Bridge.
12 Cruck framed house forming three bays and an open hall. Dendrochronoligical analysis identified a date of 1475 for some of the timbers although several cruck blades (not dated) were ...
House at Binton 150m north west of St Peter's Church. Listed building with cruck framed timbers dated by dendrochronology to 1475, elements from the 16th century, alterations in the 19th century, restored in 1984.
1 Earth bank acting as possible dam, Wroxall Abbey. Earth bank across low area of valley which opens into bowl shape on the abbey side of the dam. Possibly for ...
Earth bank across a small valley for damming the small stream, possibly for a mill, within Wroxall Abbey Park.
1 Site of possible medieval settlement at Heath End.
Watkins shows the site of the medieval Heath End in the Parish of Coleshill. Situated south of the medieval town of Coleshill.
Site of possible medieval settlement south of Coleshill.
1 The settlement is not mentioned in Domesday when it is believed it was part of the parish of Preston Bagot.
Market granted by Empress Maud (ie queen Matilda) to ...
Beaudesert, possible extent of the medeival settlement based on the 1880s OS map.
1 2 Site of Anchor inn, 1 Bridge street, Stratford upon Avon
Site of historic inn recorded in F White & Co.’s and Pigot’s databases. The latter shows it in existence ...
Site of historic inn situated on the south side of Bridge street at the junction with Waterside.
1 2 Falcon Commercial hotel, 1-3 Chapel street, Stratford upon Avon
Historic inn now hotel recorded in F White & Co.’s and Pigot’s databases. The latter gives a date of 1828.
Situated ...
Historic inn now an hotel situated on the west side of Chapel street at the junction with Scholars lane.
1 2 Old Thatch tavern, Greenhill street, Stratford upon Avon
Historic public house recorded on F White & Co.’s, and Pigot’s databases. The latter shows it in existence in 1828.
Situated on ...
Historic public house situated on the south side of Greenhill Street at the junction with Rother Street.
1 2 3 Shakespeare hotel and posting establishment, 17 Chapel street, Stratford upon Avon
Historic inn/hotel recorded on F White & Co.’s, and Pigot’s databases. The latter shows it in existence ...
Historic inn/hotel situated on the east side of Chapel street.
1A coppice wood of 20.8 ha. Almost certainly recorded in the 1279 Hundred Rolls, the wood can probably be identified with one of the two woods recorded in Domesday Book ...
Piles Coppice, a Medieval (and probably earlier) managed woodland. The woodland comprises: wood banks, a deer park bank and evidence of ancient coppicing.
1 A 4.1 ha remnant of a larger coppice wood, mostly cleared in the mid-20th century for housing. Despite ambiguities in the record, this is probaby one of the ...
Binley Common Wood, a Medieval (and probably earlier) managed woodland; former grazed common wood. The woodland comprises: woodbanks; a possible Medieval "trench"; an area of ridge and furrow and evidence of ancient coppicing.
1 A ‘salt maere’ (pool, possibly providing refreshment for pack animals) is referred to on the boundary of Alveston in a charter of AD 985. The fishpond in Goldicote Park ...
There is Early Medieval documentary evidence for the existence of a 'salt mere' at this site, associated with a trackway. The present fishpond in Goldicote Park, 300m south west of Long Coppice, may be its descendant.
1 Various features were recorded during groundworks for a swimming pool room. The evidence is not conclusive, however a broad date of 15th century -Victorian has been suggested for ...
A ditch, post holes and a pit were uncovered during observation of building groundwork. Their date is uncertain , but was probably Post Medieval onwards. The site was at Luddington Manor.
1 Watching Brief and Evaluation carried out by OAU, in advance of the construction of new dwelling. An evaluation trench was excavated in November 1995 which revealed a stone-built Victorian ...
Archaeological investigation revealed evidence of settlement dating to the Late Medieval to Imperial period and included a stone built structure, a ditch, pottery and a penny. It is located 100m west of the church, Fenny Compton.
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The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
This famous Hospital was founded by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the First (who gave him Kenilworth Castle). The magnificent buildings were in fact not ...
This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming ...
This almshouse was founded in 1518 by Sir Robert Throgmorton of nearby Coughton Court. It stands modestly on the Birmingham Road close to the entrance to Coughton Court.
The inhabitants
The original ...
