1 Chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene near the site of a hermitage (PRN 2233). In 1423 Richard, Earl of Warwick, was licensed to found a chantry in honour of ...
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Guy's Cliffe, Warwick. It was built in the Medieval period, possibly in the 13th century, and rebuilt in the 15th century.
1 A well, traditionally associated with Guy of Warwick.
2 A spring head at the base of a cliff enclosed in a fairly modern arched recess of ashlar sandstone.
3 Circa 1751-7 ...
Guy's Well, a Medieval holy well, associated with Guy of Warwick, can be found 215m south of The Saxon Mill public house.
A sketch map of part of Woodcote drawn in c.1815 shows High Wood adjoining Kenilworth. A high Wood was named in 1633, but at that time was part of ...
Medieval Woodland ajoining Kenilworth
1 To the north of Warwick was Guy Cliffe Grove, recorded in 1422-3 and 1483 The site is suggested by the enclosure award for St. Nicholas’s parish, which included ...
Medieval woodland formerly Guy Cliffe Grove
1 The probable extent of the medieval settlement at Leek Wootton based on the OS map of 1886, 33NW.
2 The 1886 map shows settlement clustered around the central intersection of ...
The probable extent of the medieval settlement at Leek Wootton based on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
1 The possible extent of settlement based on the OS map of 1886, 33NW.
2 The Dugdale map marks Hill Wootton and gives it a tiny circle – the symbol for ...
The possible extent of the medieval/post medieval settlement based on documentary evidence.
1 Find of a partially worked barbed and tanged arrowhead from the early Bronze Age. Method of recovery unrecorded. The grid reference given was SP43456930, which is in Bourton and ...
Find of a partially worked barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Bronze Age. The exact location is unclear.
The Saxon Mill originally belonged to the Augustinian St Mary’s Abbey in Kenilworth and then formed part of the Guy’s Cliffe estate. It was rebuilt in 1822 and appears to ...
1 Axe (Group VI). Found at Banner Hill Farm. In private possession.
2 Neolithic date agreed.
Findspot - a Neolithic stone axe was found in a field between Bulloak, Bannerhill and Goodrest farms.
1 An inscription cut on a rock on the S side of Blacklow Hill, near the top has, among other letters: ‘1311 P GAVESTON EARL OF CORNWALL BEHEADED HERE.’
2 This ...
The site of a Post Medieval inscribed stone on Blacklow Hill. The stone has, among other letters, the inscription, "1311 P GAVESTON EARL OF CORNWALL BEHEADED HERE" The stone is on the site of Gaveston's Cross.
1 On the S side of Blacklow Hill large quantities of glass waste have been found. Masonry walls are also evident, covered by dense shrub.
Large quantities of glass and the remains of masonry walls have been observed on the south face of Blacklow Hill. This may indicate the presence of a Post Medieval glassworks.
1 Numerous flint implements, flakes and cores found by J H Edwards on a low terrace and flood plain on the N bank of the Avon, near where the Hill ...
Numerous flint implements dating to between the Mesolithic and the Bronze Age. The flint scatter was found in the field which now forms the north roundabout of the Warwick bypass.
1 Thomas Beauchamp the Younger had an oratory here in 1375.
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a Medieval oratory, a private chapel associated with Goodrest Lodge. It is located approximately 1.5km west of Leek Wootton.
1 Remains of a large fish pool.
2 Two ponds can be seen S of the moat platform, the lower one being the larger. The upper pond is 28m by 16m ...
Medieval fishponds, used for the breeding and storage of fish, which survive as earthworks. They are situated 500m north west of Nine Acre Plantation, Leek Wootton.
1 Flint scatter found during excavation of Saxon (?) site in 1971. John Hedges Collection, large numbers of cores, blades/flakes, scrapers, microliths and other flints.
2 A Mesolithic flint scatter coincided ...
Findspot - a large number of Mesolithic flints artefacts were found on land adjacent to Blacklow Hill. The area is now partially coverd by the A46.
1 An enclosure about 33m square, surrounded by a well-defined moat. Outside this is another moat which is not so clearly defined. The entrance is by a well-built, double-arched stone ...
Goodrest Lodge double moat, a wide ditch that surrounded a Manor House, of Medieval date. There is documentary evidence for its existence, and it remains visible as an earthwork. It is situated 450m north west of Nine Acre Plantation, Leek Wootton.
1 A coin from the 16th century reported by metal detectorists.
Find spot - a Post Medieval coin was found near Nevill Close, Whitnash.
1 Soon after 1757 Samuel Greatheed built a new and larger house on the site of the old house (PRN 2234). Later alterations and additions have obscured this house except ...
Guy's Cliffe House, a ruined building dating to the Imperial Period. It is situated on the outskirts of north Warwick.
1 A building known as the Deer House. It backs onto a small wood. Photographs were taken in 1980 and by 1981 it had collapsed. The building was 19.8 by ...
The site of Deer House, now a ruined building. The house was built during the Imperial Period. It lies close to the southern weir between Goodrest Farm and Fox Covert.
Find of a Neolithic/Bronze Age flint.
1 Flint flake found during Kenilworth Bypass survey.
Findspot - A Neolithic to Bronze age flint was found 150m east of The Elms, Leek Wootton
Find of Neolithic/Bronze Age flint.
1 Worked flint found during Kenilworth bypass survey.
Findspot Neolithic to Bronze age flint was found 170m east of the Leek Wootton Primary School
