1 Archaeological observation in the outer court of Kenilworth Castle during the excavation of a trench for a replacement electrictiy cable revealed three stone walls belonging to a building or ...
Site of Medieval Period walls set along the curtain wall of Kenilworth Castle north east of Mortimer's Tower.
1 The watching brief on ground reduction and the excavation of foundation trenches for a new extension to the rear of the Clarendon Arms/Harrington’s Restautant recorded walling and part of ...
19th century walling and part of a modern quarry tile floor were recorded during the construction of a building extension. The walls were likely to have been part of a building shown on the 1905 OS map. The site lay immediately behind 38 Castle Hill, Kenilworth.
1 A ground penetrating radar survey provided evidence for the culvert observed at the base of the excavated old access chamber.
2 A second phase of ground penetrating radar survey was ...
1 Here was the ‘Castle End’ pound. It was triangular in shape and part of the two N walls survive flanking the entrance path to a house in Borrow Well ...
The site of a pound used for penning livestock in the Imperial period. It was situated 50m north of the Police station, on the site of a modern hotel.
1 Smithy.
2 No 26 and 28 (including Clarke’s Smithy). Late 16th century timber framed. Single storey plus attic.
3 Apparently it was demolished in 1959 and nothing remains.
The site of a forge, wheelwrights workshop and coach works dating to the Post Medieval period. It was a timber framed single storey building and was demolished in 1959. It was situated on Bridge Street, Kenilworth.
1 Smithy marked, 1923.
2 The building is still standing although it has been converted to a garage and is now called Forge Garage, Kenilworth.
The site of a forge which was in use from the Imperial through to the 20th century. The building has been converted to a garage and is situated at Mill End.
1 ‘Bulkington Brick Works’ marked.
2 No buildings are marked. The area is now partly garden and partly arable field, with no surface indication of the site.
The site of Bulkington brick/tile works. They date to the Imperial period, and are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The site is south west of Rounds Hill, Kenilworth.
1 The only reference to the Vicarage, presumably built in the 1850’s as it was attached to St John’s Church which was built in 1852, is on the 1886 OS ...
The site of the Vicarage built during the Imperial period and which is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. A housing estate now stands on this site, though when the Vicarage was demolished is not known. It was situated 400m west of the cricket ground, Kenilworth.
1 ‘Smithy’ marked.
2 The building is still standing as a domestic dwelling, but there is no sign of it having been a smithy.
The site of a forge which was in use during the Imperial period and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. A building still stands on the site though there is no obvious evidence that it was once a forge. It is located on Castle Hill.
1 ‘Townpool Bridge’ marked.
2 A bridge marked in this location.
3 Bridge of red sandstone, spanning the Finham Brook and an area to each side of the stream, with a flood ...
Townpool Bridge, the site of a Post Medieval bridge , which was marked on a map of 1692, and on an Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The present footbridge is of red sandstone, and crosses the Finham Brook at the southern end of Bridge Street.
1 The only reference to this site is on the 1886 OS map where a sundial is marked as being in the grounds of a house called Parkfield which stood ...
A sundial once stood within the grounds of a house that stood on this site. The house has now been demolished but it, and the sundial, are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The sundial was situated at Park Hill, Kenilworth.
1 ‘Saw Mill’ marked.
2 There is no sign of the building now, a modern house/garden stands on the site.
The site of a saw mill which was in use during the Imperial period and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. On the site there now stands a modern house and garden. The mill was located 100m north of the castle.
1 ‘Smithy’ marked.
2 The land is now a modern house and garden.
The site of a forge in use during the Imperial period and which is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. A modern house and garden now stand on the site which is situated 100m north of the castle.
1 ‘Saw Mill’ marked.
2 Nothing remains of the building and the area is now the back garden of a couple of houses.
The site of a saw mill which was in use during the Imperial period and which is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. The rear gardens of modern houses now occupy the site that is situated 100m south of The Common, off Dalehouse Lane, Kenilworth.
1 A building is shown here on a 1781 Estate map, and two pieces of land immediately adjoining and behind it are called ‘Workhouse Close’ and ‘Workhouse Land’.
2 The South ...
The site of the workhouse which housed the poor of the parish during the Imperial period. A building and two fields called 'Workhouse Close' and 'Workhouse Land' are marked on an Estate Map of 1781. The probable remains of the workhouse were revealed during excavation at The Blundells, Albion Street, Kenilworth.
1 A house with outbuildings is shown and the fields behind are labelled: 1: House, Malthouse, Yards, Garden and 2 Malthouse Close.
2 The building no longer exists and the site ...
The site of a malt house which is marked on an estate map of 1820 along with a house, a yard and gardens plus two fields called 'Malthouse close'. The library now occupies the site in Smalley Place, Kenilworth.
1 The ‘site of’ Bakehouse Pool is marked.
2 No further reference was found even in discussions of the water system of the Castle. The date/nature/use of the pool is uncertain, ...
The site of Bakehouse Pool, which was possibly a mill pond of Medieval or Post Medieval date. It is no longer visible, but was situated in the north east part of Abbey Fields, Kenilworth.
1 The great flood of 1673 – one of the worst floods ever in the town – destroyed the Medieval Packsaddle Bridge, which carried traffic across the brook to the ...
Packsaddle bridge, the site of a Medieval bridge destroyed by a flood in 1673. Traces of the stone abutments are still visible in the banks of Finham Brook, just west of the present iron footbridge in the Abbey Fields.
1 Kenilworth had two pounds (see PRN 3253). This one was on the S side of the High Street.
2 The pound is still standing. Set back off the front of ...
A pound which was used for penning livestock during the Imperial period. It is located on the south side of the High Street in Kenilworth.
1 At one time the old stocks were placed near the junction of School Lane and Bridge Street. According to a local man, they were in the playground in front ...
The site of stocks, in which the offender's wrists and/or ankles were held as a punishment. They dated to the Imperial period, and were located at the junction of Bridge Street and School Lane, Kenilworth. They were later moved to Borrowell Lane.
1 When the stocks were removed from Bridge Street, they were placed in Borrowell Lane, opposite the pound. This was apparently for two reasons: the large increase in traffic ...
The site of stocks, in which an offender's wrists and/or ankles were held as a punishment. These stocks, which dated to the Imperial period were earlier sited in Bridge Street. This site was in Smalley Place in front of the Police Station.
1 Virtually all the roads out of Kenilworth in the 19th century were turnpike roads: Drew seems to remember “a toll-gate type structure at the Brays end of the Tilt-yard, ...
The possible site of a toll gate which was in use during the Imperial period where travellers paid the toll for using the toll road. It was situated on Castle Road, Kenilworth.
1 Post Mill. Mill End (on hillock E of town centre). Built by 1787. Ceased early 19th century.
2 The area is now under a large modern housing estate.
The site of a windmill of the post mill type, in use during the Imperial period. It was situated in the area of Knowle Hill, which is now under housing.
1 Post Mill. Kenilworth Common. Built by 1787. Ceased by late 19th century.
2 Today the common is heavily wooded and no trace of the windmill could be found.
The site of a windmill of the post mill type, in use during the Imperial period. No surface trace is now visible at the site, 150m north east of Windmill Close, Ladyes Hill.
