1 Chancel with N vestry, N aisle, S aisle, N porch and W tower. The remains of the Saxon church consist of the range of windows above the nave arcades, ...
The Church of St Gregory, which was built during the Early Medieval period, around 800 AD. The church underwent various alterations in later centuries. It is located 275m south east of the Tredington Post Office.
1 Mainly C14-C15. Chancel, nave, N and S aisles and porches, and W tower with spire. Rich in detail but severely restored 1868. Important monuments and C12 font.
2 There was ...
The Medieval parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul which is located 100m east of High Street, Coleshill.
1 Archaeological observation of the excavation of foundation trenches recorded a large ditch sealed by a medieval ground surface containing 12th/13th century pottery. No dating evidence was found within ...
A large undated ditch, sealed by a medieval ground surface containing 12th/13th century pottery, was recorded during the excavation of foundation trenches at Tredington House, Tredington.
2 A mill is known to have existed at Alveston since 966 and in the Domesday survey there were three mills. In 1240 there were two mills and a mill ...
Alveston Mill, the site of a watermill for which there is documentary evidence from the early Medieval period. Derelict by 1886, it was demolished in the 1940s. Only a weir survives. The mill was 400m north east of the church.
1 A mound at SP33077235 is likely to be the Hundred mound of Motslow.
2On modern OS maps this is shown as a quarry.
The site of a mound which is visible as an earthwork. The mound may have been the Post Medieval meeting place of the hundred of Motslow. It is situated 400m south of Stoneleigh.
1 Site of the medieval and post medieval settlement of Freasley, Polesworth. Settlement has 17th and 16th century houses. The village extrends to the S in a more disorganised way. ...
Buildings of 17th and 16th century with an extension South onto the Green.
1 An area of stonework was found during an evaluation. The stonework included walls and a drain and a possible robbed-out wall. The drain produced material from the 11th-13th century. ...
A layer containing a significant amount of medieval pottery was found, along with a stone drain of 11th-1th century date. A stone wall and a robbed out wall were also found and were believed to have been of medieval date.
1 Chancel, central tower, S chapel, nave, S aisle, and N and S porches. Lower three fifths of the tower is probably of the first half of the 11th ...
The Church of St Peter which was founded as a minster during the Early Medieval period. Alterations were made to the church in the Medieval and Post Medieval periods. It is situated on Stratford Road, Wootton Wawen.
1 Three fields centred on the above location are called “Little Mill Field, “Mill Field Mead” and “Great Mill Field”.
2 This field is now under plough and apart from ...
The possible site of a watermill of unknown date. The site is suggested by field names and lies 100m west of Ansty Waste Bridge.
1 Research has indicated that the remains of a mill in the former manor of Stockingford is located approximately 100m SSE of Valley Farm. Other documentary evidence for the manor ...
Research has indicated that the remains of a mill in the former manor of Stockingford is located approximately 100m SSE of Valley Farm.
1 During a watching brief and topographical survey two house platforms were identified anlong with two other possible platforms. A possible cobbled road/trackway was found to the north and ...
A medieval trackway or road was recorded during a watching brief at Beau Geste, Sawbridge.
1 A boundary ditch and a post hole of possible medieval date were revealed in an evaluation trench.
A boundary ditch and a post hole of medieval or post-medieval date were found in an evaulation trench in 2010. A sherd of medieval pottery was recovered from the post hole.
1 Site of The Hundred Court, Coleshill.
The Coleshill Hundred was the largest of the 10 Warwickshire Hundreds in 1086, and the Hundred Court met six-monthly at Coleshill possibly on the ...
Possible site of Hundred Court on The Croft next to the Parish (former Minster) church.
1 Earth bank acting as possible dam, Wroxall Abbey. Earth bank across low area of valley which opens into bowl shape on the abbey side of the dam. Possibly for ...
Earth bank across a small valley for damming the small stream, possibly for a mill, within Wroxall Abbey Park.
1 Site of possible medieval settlement at Heath End.
Watkins shows the site of the medieval Heath End in the Parish of Coleshill. Situated south of the medieval town of Coleshill.
Site of possible medieval settlement south of Coleshill.
1 The settlement is not mentioned in Domesday when it is believed it was part of the parish of Preston Bagot.
Market granted by Empress Maud (ie queen Matilda) to ...
Beaudesert, possible extent of the medeival settlement based on the 1880s OS map.
1A coppice wood of 20.8 ha. Almost certainly recorded in the 1279 Hundred Rolls, the wood can probably be identified with one of the two woods recorded in Domesday Book ...
Piles Coppice, a Medieval (and probably earlier) managed woodland. The woodland comprises: wood banks, a deer park bank and evidence of ancient coppicing.
1 A 4.1 ha remnant of a larger coppice wood, mostly cleared in the mid-20th century for housing. Despite ambiguities in the record, this is probaby one of the ...
Binley Common Wood, a Medieval (and probably earlier) managed woodland; former grazed common wood. The woodland comprises: woodbanks; a possible Medieval "trench"; an area of ridge and furrow and evidence of ancient coppicing.
1 A ‘salt maere’ (pool, possibly providing refreshment for pack animals) is referred to on the boundary of Alveston in a charter of AD 985. The fishpond in Goldicote Park ...
There is Early Medieval documentary evidence for the existence of a 'salt mere' at this site, associated with a trackway. The present fishpond in Goldicote Park, 300m south west of Long Coppice, may be its descendant.
1 In June 1992 the Oxford Archaeological Unit carried out an archaeological evaluation of a plot adjacent to Manor Farm, Flecknoe, in advance of house construction. A cobbled surface ...
During archaeological work a cobbled surface was found. The feature dated to the late Medieval or Post Medieval period. It was situated 300m east of the church at Flecknoe. Subsequent work recorded a number of boundary ditches of possible late Saxon origin.
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The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
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 ...
