I have lived near Bishop’s Tachbrook, for many years and have been researching my house’s history for a considerable time. When studying the 1887 25” Ordnance Survey map for the ...
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 ...
In using documents to research landscape history and ecology, there are two related golden rules to observe:
In any conflict of evidence between what the landscape itself has to say and ...
Manuscript maps can offer a window into past landscapes and tithe maps are often one of the earliest detailed maps you might find for a parish. As well as showing ...
The tithe map for Grandborough is one of a handful of ‘first class’ tithe maps produced in Warwickshire, as opposed to the majority of ‘second class’ tithe maps. As well as the ...
Henry Hewitt owned Clifton Mill from 1848 to 1869. During that time he may have poisoned his wife, himself and a large number of the local villagers. This was done ...
Jimmy Edwards was born February 5th 1895, the only son of Tom Edwards, Blacksmith of Bishop’s Itchington. Tom and his wife Elizabeth had four girls before they had young Jimmy. Jim ...
There does not appear to be a mill here in the Domesday survey of 1086 although there were two in nearby Clifton on Dunsmore. The old photograph shows a railway ...
Two mills worth 11s. were recorded at Clifton on Dunsmore in the Domesday survey of 1086: this one and another north of the village near Newton, called Laund mill and ...
From 1898 to 1903 the Rev. Edward Dew (a Church of England Oxford graduate) worked as a chaplain at Trinity College in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was also an amateur photographer and giver of lectures. Fortunately for ...
The Black Path was so called because it was originally surfaced with cinders. It was a footbridge built in the early 20th century across the railway to help workers living ...
I walked down to the main road bridge over the river Avon to try and take my ‘now’ picture, only to find the old bridge hardly visible in the distance. ...
We take it for granted that our roads today are relatively wide and straight, well-engineered and surfaced, with good and consistent signage and often attractive roadside planting. It was not ...
During the 19th century, the Jurassic limestone layers of southern and eastern Warwickshire were quarried for flooring, gravestones and walling, and for making lime and cement. Workmen often uncovered amazing fossils ...
The geological collections of the Warwickshire Museum were initiated by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society during the 19th century.
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Amongst the many curiosities collected back then are a small ...
Amongst the original collections of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, the Warwickshire Museum cares for a number of tiny ‘books’ (actually decorative pieces), carved from different varieties of ...
In the past, notably during the 19th century, the Warwickshire Museum collected specimens from exotic locations. Amongst our natural history collections we have a number of exotic butterflies, collected from tropical ...
In 1809 a sea monster was exhibited at Warwick Racecourse. The sea monster had been caught off the coast of Cornwall. It was described as being 31 feet long, 9 ...
My grandfather Henry Robbins, 1863-1950 lived in Bishops Itchington all of his life. Following his marriage to my grandmother Amy Hemmings in 1891, they lived in the old mansion buildings. ...
This highly detailed map (by William James and Assistants) illustrates the properties owned by the Earls of Warwick in Warwick at the opening of the nineteenth century. It is presumed ...
Domesday Books were compiled as a consequence of the Finance Act, 1910 in the period 1910 to 1915. They contain entries for each hereditament (property that can be inherited) in ...
In part one, I discussed the background to the Suevic running aground off the Lizard and the account of a passenger, Warwickshire woman Mrs. Ireland.
When the ship first hit the ...
With Warwickshire having two locations that claim to be the centre of England, the old cross at Meriden and the former Midland Oak at Lillington, it is probably pretty safe ...
This brick tower mill three storeys high with slight batter, 42 feet high and 18 feet diameter was built around 1795. It had four common sails, boat cap with luffing ...