1 The modern Oakley Wood was originally known as three separate woodlands – Oakley Wood, Moreton Close and Wiggerland Wood. Oakley Wood has long been known to be ...
The greater woodbank encloses Oakley Wood and may date from about 1300. The banks around Moreton Wood and Wiggerland Wood are smaller.
1 In 1086 there were two mills at Bishops Tachbrook but nothing is known of these after the 16th century. Ford Mill stood some distance downstream from the probable site ...
The site of Ford Mill, for which there is documentary evidence from the Medieval period to the early Imperial period. Traces of the head race are still visible. The site is in Warwick Castle Park, on the north side of New Waters.
1 Naspes ‘which hath not now above four houses in it, but anciently it was more populous.’
2 Rous names this village as destroyed. I identify this village as ‘The Aspes’, ...
Cropmarks and documantary evidence suggest that there is a Medieval deserted settlement 400m south east of the Asps. The settlement may have been called Naspes.
1 The depopulation appears to have taken place in 1505 and is recorded as resulting from the enclosure of 310 acres. 60 people were forced to leave sorrowfully. ...
The possible site of the deserted Medieval settlement of Tachbrook Mallory which is indicated by a scatter of pottery. The site lies to the north of Chapel Hill Farm.