In 1506, William Cope sold the manor of Wormleighton to his wife’s cousin, John Spencer of Snitterfield beginning a long association between the Spencer family and Wormleighton.
John Spencer built a manor ...
Humphry Repton was a distinguished landscape gardener; born in 1752 he died in 1818 and so his life and work are being celebrated nationally in this year of his bicentenary. Where his ...
My vision was to make a workers’ college of Easton where for so many generations its occupiers had taken as their right the best that the world can offer. All ...
Daisy, Countess of Warwick, had a special relationship with Easton Lodge, her ancestral seat – more so than she had an affinity with Warwick Castle. She had grown up in ...
In early 1933 (year of my birth) my father William (Bill) Miller was a postman in Atherstone. He told me that he cycled down the gravel drive of Grendon Hall ...
The Manor of Hunningham has a history going back a thousand years. This characteristic makes it of great historical and scientific interest in the context of studies on the history ...
A potted early history
The origins of St John’s were in the mid to late 1100s, when it was originally a sprawling medieval hospital. Its position on the eastern edge of ...
In February 2015 a painting, which was picked up at auction, was donated to the Warwickshire County Record Office. It was instantly recognisable as the Priory, Warwick.
The painting is dated ...