1 Original house built in the 18th century by Sir John and his son Sir Charles Mordant. The present house incorporates most of the old masonry and was built ...
Walton Hall, a Post Medieval house built by Sir John and Sir Charles Mordant. The house was later modified by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
1 Finds of Roman material. The source gives Wasperton as the parish, but the grid reference given (SP285565 approx) is in Wellesbourne. Perhaps it should be SP265565. Method of recovery ...
Find of Roman coins, potsherds and a brooch fragment.
1 Fragment of Anglo Saxon brooch found, according to the source, in Wasperton, but the grid reference given (SP285565) is in Wellesbourne. Perhaps it should be SP265565. Method of recovery ...
Find of Anglo Saxon brooch fragment in either Wasperton or Wellesbourne.
1 A small iron pot was recovered during the topsoil stripping for the base of a new detached timber storage building. It appeared to have been used for melting lead.
A small iron pot was recovered during the topsoil stripping for the base of a new detached timber storage building. It appeared to have been used for melting lead. The site is 10m south of St James's Church, Walton.
1 Found near Ford, on the allotments, Home Farm, Walton, Wellesbourne c.20 years ago
1 A JCB operator digging a drainage ditch at the edge of a wheat field found the head of a human skeleton in a trench 0.8m deep. The skull and ...
The site of a burial of unknown date. It was discovered 600m north west of Bath Hill Wood, Walton.
1 Marked as ‘The Town’ on map of 1728. Wolsey’s enquiry of 1517 was told that the whole village was destroyed in 1509.
3 Archaeological evidence medium (B), excellent documentary evidence ...
The site of the deserted settlement of Walton Deyville which dates to the Medieval period. Earthworks survive showing house platforms, the main village street and hollow ways. The village is also known from documentary evidence. It was located 900m south of Walton.
1 The grass field to the S of the house, called the Town Field, has been supposed to contain traces of Roman buildings. The Rev G Miller of Radway states ...
The site of a possible Roman settlement known from finds discovered over 100 years ago. It is now believed that the finds may have been Medieval, from the deserted settlement. Roman pottery has possibly been recovered more recently, 900m south of Walton.
1 Town Field, Walton. Scene of a skirmish after the Battle of Edge Hill, relics of the fight having been from time to time dug up.
2 OS Card.
The site of a possible battlefield as suggested from finds that have been discovered from time to time. It is believed it may be the site of a skirmish after the Battle of Edgehill, during the Post Medieval period. The site is located 900m south of Walton.
1 (Marginal). Exhibited by E P Shirley. An iron prick-spur covered with a white metal, found in digging the foundations of a bridge on the E and W junction railway ...
Findspot - an iron spur dating to the Medieval period was found in the parish of Walton.
1 Site hereabouts dug by Cove Jones. Information from PM 12:04:1950, cf VCH, Vol 1, p247.
2 A coin of Allectus from near Loxley House.
3 The coin could have come from ...
Findspot - a coin dating to the Roman period was found in Wellesbourne Wood, near Loxley.
1 On Bath Hill is the Bath House, which gives birth to a copious spring issuing from a basin 31cm long, 20cm broad and 15cm deep. The lower part of ...
A folly dating to the Imperial period. It is situated in Bath House Wood. There were suggestions that it was a Roman bath house but recent investigation revealed that the whole building dates to the 18th or 19th century, though the gazebo did contain a spring or bath.
1 Exhibited a dozen specimens of flint chips, selected from a large deposit found from 1.8 to 3.6m below the level of the ground at Walton, in excavating the bed ...
Findspot - a flint core dating to the Neolithic or the Bronze Age was found 550m south of Walton.
1 A bronze boss was found at the same location as flint objects (PRN 1129) found while excavating for the bed of some ornamental water at Walton. The boss is ...
Findspot - a bronze boss from a sword of unknown date was found 550m south of Walton.
1 (Marginal). A gentleman of Leamington, in a communication to the present writer, records the discovery of a Palaeolithic flake in river gravel at Walton. Other flint implements were also ...
Findspot - a flint flake dating to the Palaeolithic period was found 400m south east of Walton.
1 Exhibited by M H Bloxam. Bone pin, (?) 10cms in length, found with the remains of a skeleton in the village of Walton.
2 Noted.
A burial of unknown date was discovered along with a bone pin. It was found 450m south west of Walton.
1 Sepulchral urn containing ashes found at Wellesbourne by Rev J Clavering. Museum donation.
2 Listed under Romano British Remains with reference to ‘Burial Urn found 1823 – Wellesbourne’.
3 Noted.
A burial dating to the Roman period which was made up of an urn containing ashes was found near Wellesbourne.
1 In 1086 there were three mills in the manor and one or more may have stood on this site. Two mills are mentioned in the 16th to 17th century, ...
Wellesbourne Mill for which there is documentary evidence from the Medieval period. It operated until 1958. The building dates from 1834. It has an internal breast shot wheel and workable machinery. It stands 1km south east of the church.
1 A millpond is situated here. It may be the same date as the present watermill.
A pond, probably associated with the present watermill, and so in use from the Post Medieval to the Imperial period. It is situated on the River Dene at the Mill Farm, Wellesbourne.
1 A pebble macehead with hourglass perforation found at Wellesbourne Farm, Wellesbourne Hastings, is now in the County Museum, Warwick.
2 Noted.
Findspot - a stone mace head dating to the Mesolithic period was found 700m south east of St Peter's church, Wellesbourne.
2 Probable settlement consisting of subrectangular enclosures, linear features and pits shows as cropmark. Morphologically these cropmarks could be of Iron Age or Roman date and a few Iron Age/Romano ...
Enclosures and linear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They may indicate the site of a possible settlement dating to the Iron Age/Roman period. Pottery of this date has been found at the site, which is located 900m west of Wellesbourne.
1 Finds made by in 1987 included a struck flake from a prepared core and one retouched piece – probably a knife or edge scraper.
2 Dating of these flints extended ...
Findspot - flint tools dating to between the Mesolithic and Bronze Age periods were found 100m north west of Smatchley Wood. The tools comprised a flint flake, from a prepared core, and a retouched flint.
1 Mile Post marked.
The site of a milepost dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1906. It was located 100m east of Manston Drive, Wellesbourne.
1 Walton Deyville was a chapel of Wellesbourne and is first recorded in the reign of Henry II (1154-89). The high altar was dedicated in 1381, which suggests that it ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a chapel in use from the Medieval to the Post Medieval period. Fragments of moulded stone which were probably from this chapel were recovered during topsoil stripping. The present church of St Peter occupies the site.
