Wooden post mill probably built at the beginning of the 19th century. It had an open trestle, four common sails, metal sheeted breast and roof, ladder and tailpole,
Ceased working by ...
The Edge Hill ridge in southern Warwickshire is capped by a thin layer of sedimentary ironstone, known locally as the Hornton Stone. This was quarried on the ridge until quite ...
Edge Hill, in southern Warwickshire, is well known as the site of the first major battle of the English Civil War. On Sunday 23rd October 1642, the Parliamentarian and Royalist armies ...
The United Kingdom has only five resident species of reptile: the adder; grass snake; smooth snake; common lizard; and sand lizard. Whilst snakes might be expected to live in Warwickshire, ...
The Market Hall Museum displays include a large slab of ironstone, collected a good few years ago from the now disused Edge Hill quarries in the south of the county. ...
Folly buildings were added to the landscape by people who admired the romantic and the picturesque. They usually imitate the style of a previous age (sometimes even being built as ...
My brothers, Michael and Tony and I have incredibly happy memories of staying in Rupert Cottage with our parents in the 1950s and 1960s when visiting their friends Dick and ...