1 “Stoneleigh Park” first appears on a map from 1787, but is shown as the area of the deer park – (WA 2865) – not the area around the Abbey. ...
Stoneleigh Abbey Park, a landscape park dating to the Imperial period. The park is marked on various maps, the earliest of which dates to 1787. Some of the features of the park are visible as earthworks. It is situated to the north east of Thickthorn Wood.
1 ‘Blacksmith’s Shop and Yard’.
2 The site is roughly in the area of the above grid reference. There is no sign of a building old enough to be the smithy ...
The site of a forge where wrought iron was made during the Imperial period. It is marked on a tithe map of 1839. The forge was situated to the south of Main Street, Easenhall.
1 Brick built blacksmith’s shop belonging to Ridgeway Farm used until 1975. No equipment remains. Hearth there.
The site of a forge where wrought iron was made. It dated from the Imperial period and remained in use until 1975. The forge was located at Ridgeway Farm.
The animals you see displayed at Warwickshire Museum are the result of taxidermy and the majority are of species that occur in the British Isles and, in particular, Warwickshire itself. ...
This fascinating picture gives us an important record of the industrial revolution in Warwickshire. The textile mill was built for Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury Hall (1719-1806) on his land to ...
When the German army invaded Belgium 250,000 Belgians fled to Britain. Rugby, quite typically of the country’s reactions, established Relief Committees to organise accommodation and fund support1. 200 were settled ...