1 Description: Chancel, nave, N and S aisles and W tower, vestries N of chancel and S of tower. S arcade probably late 13th century and N arcade early ...
The Church of St James, which was originally built in the Medieval period. It is located 175m south west of Pigeon Green, Snitterfield.
1 Snitterfield Hall was demolished c1820. The Hall stood on the left beyond the church, the wall of the kitchen garden being still standing.
2 There is no trace of the ...
The site of Snitterfield Hall, a house dating back to the Post Medieval period. The existence of the hall is known from documentary evidence. It was situated on the east side of Church Road, Snitterfield.
1 A prominent raised square platform. Its exact limits could not be defined as the site was overgrown. The earthwork may be the platform of a large house or the ...
The site of a platform, possibly a house platform, which survives as an earthwork. It is of unknown date and is located to the east of The Green, Snitterfield.
1 A brick wall, pit and cut were uncovered during a watching brief on ground works for a replacement dwelling. The wall is likely to be a boundary wall as ...
A boundary wall and a pit, both dating to the Imperial period were found during archaeological work. The features were situated near the church at Snitterfield.
1 S of Marraway Farm a green track, a continuation of the lane from Norton Lindsey, crosses the Stratford road and the S end of the parish. This is marked ...
A trackway, dating to the Post Medieval period, is known from documentary evidence. It now exists as a footpath marked on the Ordnance Survey map. It is situated south of Warwickshire Pit Spinney.
1 OS 1st edition map shows the location of a gasworks.
2 A small gas works on the edge of the village near the Wolverton Road. The gasworks were constructed ...
The site of Snitterfield Hall Gas Works. Gas was made here for domestic use from the Imperial period onwards. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 and is situated 100m south of the cricket ground, Snitterfield.
Warwick Racecourse is home to an interesting species of plant that flowers unusually in the autumn rather than the spring.
The Meadow Saffron (Colchium autumnale, also called the Autumn Crocus) is ...
1 A ?Mesolithic flint axe. Found in 1988. It was found in a ploughed field while walking on a footpath between SP2160 and SP2061. The finder did not notice any ...
Findspot - a flint axe, dating to the Mesolithic period, was found near Norton Lindsey.
1 A saddle quern was found by a farmworker in a fruit farm at Snitterfield, in 1983. Identified by Keeper of Geology as sandstone, possibly true quartzite: not local.
2 Saddle ...
Findspot - a prehistoric saddle quern was found north east of Lower Ingon.
Registers of Banns of Marriage
The baptism, marriage and burial records found in parish collections held at Warwickshire County Record Office are the family historian’s bread and butter. Banns registers, however, are an often ...
1 Square four-stepped base surmounted by octagonal plinth, and Latin cross. Inscription on bronze plaques on the sides of the plinth; bronze sword on the front face of the cross. ...
The war memorial, a square base surmounted by octagonal plinth, and Latin cross at Snitterfield. It is located to the south of the main village.
1 Opened as a satellite airfield to Church Lawford in 1943. Although having 40 dispersal pads, this airfield never reached its intended capacity. For a time was used to train ...
The site of RAF Snitterfield, a Second World War airfield. It was used to train Belgian air crews and closed in 1946. The airfield site is located east of Bearley.
I was still at school in Warwick when World War 2 was declared. At first it didn’t make much difference, except having to carry our gas-masks and putting the black-out ...