1 Three trenches were opened by the Coventry and District Archaeology Society. Two were archaeologically sterile, yielding only residual 2nd century pottery. The third trench revealed the possible traces of ...
A ditch, dating to the Roman period, was found during archaeological work. Fragments of Roman pottery were also found at the site, which lies 800m south west of Baginton.
This recipe, which was kindly chosen for me, is from a recipe book in the Eleanor Archer collection1. Although the book itself is believed to have belonged to her mother, ...
Were you there, when on May 30th 1982 Pope John Paul II visited Baginton Airfield in Warwickshire? Many were, and this was certainly an event like no other.
Clearly the visit ...
I left the Fleet Air Arm after 12 years in 1960 and joined AWA in July of that year working as an instrument technician in the instrument test lab under ...
1 A municipal airfield developed before 1939 with the support of “Armstrong Whitey” who built their new works (MWA 8095) adjacent the airfield. The first paved runway was not built ...
Baginton Airfield was built before 1939. It continued to be used as a municipal airfield after the Second World War. It is situated to the west of Bubbenhall.
Intelligence was received at Coventry on Monday morning about twenty minutes to eleven that Baginton Hall was on fire. All that the messenger, a groom named Everitt, could say, for ...
I married Ken Ashford on 23rd December 1939. He was a Coventry kid. We met at my Grandmother’s house. I moved to Coventry where we lived with Ken’s father and ...
Wanting something to pass the hours during this time? Try solving some of our jigsaw puzzles of photos on our website. We used Jigsaw Explorer to create these puzzles, and hope you ...
1 Chancel, nave, double N aisle, vestry, and bell-turret. Early 13th century, with a second N aisle added probably about mid 13th century. Other unusual features are the two sets ...
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist. It was built during the Medieval period. Rennovations were carried out during the 18th Century. The church is situated on Church Road, Bagington.
1 An air raid shelter seen on aerial photographs to the east of the aircraft factory at Baginton Airfield was mapped as part of the English Heritage (EH) National Mapping ...
An air raid shelter can be seen on aerial photographs to the east of the aircraft factory at Baginton Airfield
1 Late 17th/ early 18th century with more recent additions. A plain, but somehow attractive house of stone with stone gable ends, and a projecting gabled wing surmounted by ...
A vicarage that was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated in Church Road, Baginton.
1 A modern military vehicle test track, a modern quarry and an area of modern dumping, found during a survey of the Medieval shrunken village.
During a field survey of Baginton Castle earthworks several modern features were also recorded. These included a modern trackway used for testing military vehicles and a quarry. The features are visible as earthworks and are located 100m to the south west of the castle.
1 An extremely crude stone figurine was found during the early 1930s near Baginton parish church in Warwickshire. No details of its discovery are recorded, but it may have come ...
Findspot - a stone figurine of Roman date was found 300m west of the church at Baginton.
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.
1 A Saxon grubenhaus was observed in the section (III) of a gravel pit which extends from the castle to the church. Inside the hut dirty sand seems to have ...
The site of an Anglo Saxon settlement dating to the Migration period. The remains of a sunken hut were found during an excavation. Fragments of pottery were found in a pit inside the hut. The site is located in the area of Baginton Castle.
1 Work started on an unoccupied garden site behind the school house. Results up to date are a complex of small post holes with later pits. Among other pits found ...
The possible site of a Roman settlement. During an excavation post holes, the remains of a stone wall and a possible enclosure were found. The site is located 300m east of Baginton Castle.
1 Pigeon-cote west of castle. Late 17th century or early 18th century. A small square stone structure of two storeys. Roofless and derelict. It belonged to Baginton Hall.
2 Dovecote. Square ...
The site of a dovecote, a building in which doves or pigeons were housed. It was in use from the Post Medieval period onwards and was associated with Baginton Hall. The dovecote was situated at Baginton Castle.
1 Fishponds marked.
2 Fishponds marked.
3 The area centred in the above grid reference contains a series of three fishponds on the hillslope just above the river. Presumably they belonged to ...
Three fishponds, used for breeding and storing fish, are visible as earthworks. They date back to at least the Imperial period. The fishponds are situated 300m south east of Baginton Castle.
1 A house was built in 1618 and had been destroyed by fire in 1706. A new Georgian house (PRN 5354) replaced the earlier one. It was always assumed that ...
The site of Baginton Hall, a country house that was built during the Post Medieval period. It burnt down in 1706 and was rebuilt on a slightly different site. The house was situated 100m north west of the church at Baginton.
1 Finds recovered from “Hall Pit” included 2 flint blades, flakes and 2 cores.
A flint scatter comprising flint tools and artefacts of Prehistoric date was found 300m north east of the church at Baginton. See 2683, finds included in PRN 2683