1 The site of a sheepwash identified from the digital mapping and from the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
The site of a sheepwash identified from an Ordnance Survey map. It was located 500m southwest of the church at Withybrook.
1 Iron Age coin found in the area of Cloudesley Farm. When and how the coin was found is not recorded, but a six figure grid reference of SP457843 was ...
Iron Age coin found at Monks Kirby.
1 A hamlet in Withybrook parish. In the Lay Subsidy six persons were listed. It is also in Domesday Book. When Dugdale wrote it was ‘now little better than a ...
Hopsford, a deserted settlement which was established during the Medieval period. It was deserted during the Post Medieval period. Documentary evidence exists for the settlement. Some remains are visible as earthworks. It is situated 1km south west of Withybrook.
1 Dugdale records that there was nothing left of the manor house but ‘the skeleton’.
3 There are no surface indications to support the OS site for the Manor House and ...
The site of Hopsford Manor House which was built during the Medieval period. The manor house is known to have existed from documentary evidence. It was situated at Hopsford, 1km south west of Withybrook.
1 Chancel, nave, N and S aisles, N chapel, S porch, and NW tower. Rebuilt in the 14th century when the aisles were added. In the late 15th century the ...
The parish church of All Saints, built in the Medieval period, with modifications through to the Imperial period. The church is located 175m north-east of Withybrook Bridge.
1 Withybrook has shrunk and expanded at intervals, earthworks mirroring its fluctuations in prosperity and changing farming techniques. It is not recorded until the 12th century. By 1327 it had ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Withybrook. Remains of the village survive as earthworks.
1 Polished stone axe found c1948 when working the land. The axe is now in Warwick Museum.
2 The finder was contacted and confirmed the location.
3 Axe (20/c; Group 1).
4 Catalogue ...
Findspot - a Neolithic stone axe was found 300m north west of Foxon's Corner.
1 A mill and mill pool belonging to Nicholas son of Liulf is recorded between 1188 and 1191. The mill pond is recorded again in 1229 as belonging to Nicholas ...
The site of a Medieval watermill and a dam that held back the water that powered the mill. The site is known from documentary evidence. The dam survives as an earthwork. It was situated east of the church at Withybrook.
1 Mill marked in roughly this location.
2 Mill marked.
3 The old mill, now disused, is still standing at the W end of the Hall and is in a dilapidated condition.
4 ...
Hopsford Mill, a watermill that was in use during the Post Medieval period. The mill is known from documentary evidence. It was situated 700m south west of Hopsford.
1 Mill Fields (opposite Manor Farm from estate map 1748/81). Medieval (or later). Post mill. SP432848.
2 Seaby gives the above grid reference, but the 1844 tithe map shows three fields ...
The possible site of a windmill dating back to at least the Post Medieval period. The site of the windmill is suggested by documentary evidence. The site is located 1km west of Withybrook Grange.
1 A square ditched feature beside Withybrook Church was referred to as a moat on the 1844 Tithe Award map.
2 The ditches are visible as a squared depression in the ...
A moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It was probably Medieval in date, and was marked on a Tithe Award Map of 1884. It survives as an earthwork, and is situated 50m west of All Saints Church, Withybrook.
1 Congregational Church marked.
2 The chapel has been demolished and the site is now overgrown and covered by rubble.
The site of a chapel that was in use during the Imperial period. The chapel is marked on a tithe award map of 1843. It was situated 300m north west of the church at Withybrook.
2 Linear features show on aerial photographs, possibly forming a wide trackway.
3 ‘Cursus from aerial photography’.
4 The side ditches do not appear straight enough to indicate a cursus monument.
Linear features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They may represent the remains of a trackway. The features are situated 600m south west of Withybrook.
1 ‘Smithy’ marked.
2 A modern house now stands on the site.
Site of a forge where wrought iron was made during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The forge was situated 500m north west of the church at Withybrook.
1 ‘Brick Yard’ marked.
2 ‘Brick Kiln Close’ marked.
3 The field is now arable and contained no surface indications of the site.
The site of a brickworks dating to at least the Imperial period is suggested by documentary evidence. The site is located 600m east of Shilton Lodge Farm.
1 The only reference to this site is on the 1886 OS map, where a pit is indicated at this location and called “Old Sand Pit”.
2 The site still exists ...
The site of a sand pit dating back to at least the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887. The site is located 500m east of Withybrook Grange.
1 ‘Brick Kiln Close’ marked.
2 The land is now arable and there is no surface indication of the site.
The site of a brickworks where bricks were made in the Imperial period. The site is marked on a map of 1844. The site is located 200m south of Withybrook Spinney.
1 Find made with a metal detector in 1986 at SP447849: second century coin of Trajan.
Findspot - a single Roman coin was found 1km north east of Withybrook.
1 An embankment on the Oxford Canal, built during the straightening of the 1830s, has here made redundant a lengthy section of canal, stretching into SP4182 and SP4283. The ...
The site of a disused canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It dated from the Imperial period, and is mostly visible as an earthwork. It was part of the Oxford Canal, and situated south of Nettle Hill, with the intersection of the M6.
1 The Fosse Way probably originated as the link road along a temporary frontier line and was in existence by AD 47. Between Cirencester and High Cross it runs remarkably ...
The Fosse Way, a Roman road of mid 1st century origin, running from Cirencester to Leicester, partly along a temporary frontier line. The road runs to the south east of Stretton on Fosse.
1 Withybrook Hall garden, Withybrook, Rugby.
Lovie did not visit. He mentions only coniferous planting and orchard.
Garden with coniferous planting and orchard.
1 Hopsford Hall garden, Hopsford Hall, Withybrook, Rugby.
Lovie reports a section of the old canal being incorporated as a pool in the garden. Garden with mixed planting and woodland.
Lovie reports ...
Section of old canal incorporated as pool in garden.
Recommended for linclusion in Local List/SMR by Lovie.