1 A canal was dug from the limeworks to the main Warwick and Napton canal (WA4706). This was closed off in the 1930s and is still visible as a ...
The site of a disused canal, still visible as an earthwork. It was built during the Imperial period to service limeworks. It was situated 300m north of Stockton Bridge.
1 By 1899 the limeworks had disappeared, but hachuring from Bascote Toll House to Gossamer Hill indicates the presence of a tramroad from quarries to the canal wharves. Part of ...
The site of a tramway which was in use during the Imperial period. It ran between the Bascote Lime Works and the canal wharves. The line of the tramway is still visible near to the canal. It was located 600m north east of Bascote.
1 The limeworks are no longer shown on a map of 1899, but the line of a tramroad is shown from near Long Itchington Station to the canal at Itchington ...
The site of a tramway which was in use during the Imperial period and ran between the Cuttle Lime Works and Itchington Bottom Lock. The line of the tramway is marked on a map of 1899. It was located 500m south of Long Itchington.
1 An unusual wide double lock No 14/15, built during the 1930’s to replace two separate narrow locks. On the Warwick and Napton (Grand Union) canal.
A wide double canal lock built in modern times. A lock is a chamber with wooden gates at each end, with sluices used to lower and raise the water level of a canal. It is located on the Grand Union Canal just west of the Toll House Bridge.
1 A short aqueduct carries the Warwick and Napton canal across the River Itchen at this point.
Itchen Aquaduct, which carries the Grand Union Canal over the River Itchen. It was built in the Imperial period, and is located 100m west of Bickley's Bridge, Long Itchington.
1 Branches north from the Warwick and Napton Canal to serve the Southam Cement Works. Flooded, but the works now relies on rail transport. Almost opposite, an arm ...
The site of Kaye's Arm, a canal and associated wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located to the north west of Stockton Bridge.
1 Adjacent to the Toll House Bridge on the Warwick and Napton Canal the OS map for 1889 shows a toll house, apparently serving the canal, not the road. ...
A toll house which was used in the Imperial period to collect the tolls from travellers on the canal. It is now a private house and is situated near Toll House Bridge.
1 Reservoir marked on the OS 25″ as belonging to the Warwick and Napton Canal Company.
2 No mention is made of this in the relevant literature. The reservoir is ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this canal reservoir belonged to the Warwick and Napton Canal Company. It dates from the Imperial period, and is located 200m south of the western end of Stockton Locks.
1 A turnpike established between 1750 and 1775. First Act 1754-5.
A toll road running from Ryton Bridge to Banbury, via Southam. Travellers would have paid to use the road during the Imperial period.
1 Two public stone and gravel pits were nominated. One was on Stone Pit Furlong in High Clays Field. This is marked on the Leigh Estate Map of 1783 and ...
The site of a quarry dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on an estate map of 1783 on Stone Pit Furlong in High Clays Field. It was located 600m east of Long Itchington.
1 In the 1776 Enclosure Award for Long Itchington, two public stone pits and gravel pits were nominated. 1 was on Bascote Heath and the site is still traceable as ...
The site of a quarry dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the 1776 Enclosure Map. Earthworks are still visible as rough ground 700m north east of Bascote Bridge.
1 A field on the John Daniels Estate plan of c1830 is named as Stonepit Close. It is at the above grid reference, but shows little sign of quarrying.
2 1830 ...
The site of a quarry dating to the Imperial period. It is known from the name of a field, Stonepit Close, which is marked on an 1830 Estate Map. It is located 900m south west of Bascote.
1 There are possible stone pits in The Park at Stoneythorpe, just south of the Deserted Medieval Village (WA 1620). This is a likely site as stone was quarried ...
The site of possible quarries dating to the Imperial period which are visible as earthworks. They are located 700m north west of Brooklands, Southam.
1 Stone pit marked on a map of 1776.
2 The stone pit is 226 yards long and 34 yards wide.
The site of a quarry dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on a map from 1776. It is located 800 north of Bascote Bridge.
1 A map of 1834 shows the High Clays Lime Works at Barley Furlong. On the 1899 edition of the OS map, quarries are marked adjacent to High Clays Farm ...
The site of lime works and quarries which were in use during the Imperial period. They are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1899. They are situated 1km east of Long Itchington.
1 In 1834 lime works existed between the canal near Bascote Toll House and Snowford Hill Farm. By 1899 the limeworks had disappeared, but a tramroad is marked (PRN 5233).
The site of Bascote Lime Works, a quarry which was in use during the Imperial period. The quarry had ceased by 1899 but the line of a tramway is still visible. It is located 500m north west of Bascote Bridge.
1 Limeworks are shown opposite the Cuttle on the 1834 map. These were no longer shown in 1899, but the tramroad is shown (PRN 5234). White’s Directory of 1874 refers ...
Cuttle Lime Works, where lime was made in the Imperial period, and which are shown on a map of 1834. An associated tramway is shown on a later map of 1899. The limeworks were located south of Cuttle Bridge.
1 Limeworks started by Mr Oldham in 1854, taken over by Tatham, Kay and Co in 1868 and by the Rugby Portland Cement Co in 1934. Commencing initially in Long ...
Southam Cement Works and quarry, described as 'Long Itchington Cement and Lime Works' in the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. From the middle of the 19th century production expanded and came under different owners. The site is now a concrete waste.
1 The brickyards were commenced in the mid 19th century and were owned by William Witherington, a member of the family who worked the Keuper Marl clay which comprised the ...
The site of a brickworks where bricks were made on an industrial scale during the Imperial period. The brickyard cottages have been restored. The site was 500m north of Long Itchington, at Rhine Hill.
1 An oval depression 10m by 6m in the NW corner of Lime Kiln Ground may have been a lime kiln.
An oval depression in the ground suggests that this may have been the site of a lime kiln from the Imperial period. The site is 300m south west of Cuttle Bridge, Long Itchington.
1 Greenwood’s map of 1822 shows a small park in this location.
A small park is marked on an early 19th century map. It was situated 1km north of Long Itchington.
1 Excavations (EWA3238) carried out in advance of the laying of a sewage pipe across the remains of Bascote shrunken Medieval settlement (WMA 1702) also found the remains of 18th ...
Archaeological excavation uncovered a well, a cobbled trackway and pottery dating to the Imperial period. This may be a settlement site, perhaps linked to work being carried out in the area in the 1700s either on the canal or at the quarries. It is situated 100m north of Bascote.
1 Smithy marked on 1886 map.
The site of a blacksmiths workshop where iron was worked during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 as a smithy. It was situated 200m south west of The Green, Long Itchington.
1 Sawmill marked on 1904 map.
The site of a saw mill, where logs were converted to timber during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1904. The saw mill was located to the south east of The Green, Long Itchington.