1 The Deer Park is shown on a map of 1597 (CRO Z139/3b). It is difficult to assess its exact area, but the southern boundary follows a line ...
Stoneleigh deer park, where deer were kept for hunting during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It is marked on several maps, the earliest of which dates to 1597. The deer park is located to the south east of Stoneleigh.
Within the collections of the Warwickshire Museum, is an exceedingly rare 16th century lute. Not only is this instrument of incredibly high quality, but it was made by one of ...
1 1670: A committee was set up to bargain for stone to erect a Market House. It was built on stone pillars and from 1700 parts were rented to tradesmen. ...
Warwick Market Hall was built of sandstone in the 17th century. Areas were rented to tradesmen, and there was a small prison on the ground floor. Markets were held here until 1905, after which the whole building became a museum. It is located in Market Place.
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Few personal letters written by Oliver Cromwell before 1640 have survived, so this letter1 is of particular value for the insight it provides into his character at a critical stage of ...
This map (by James Fish, dated 1691) outlines the lands owned by the Greville family in Cesters Over, located in the parish of Monks Kirkby, Warwickshire. The map indicates the ...
Sometime in the 1580s, Ralph Sheldon, a wealthy Warwickshire landowner and gentleman, commissioned a set of four tapestry maps to hang in his newly built house at Weston, near Long ...
Francis Willughby was born at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, and is known for his Ornithologia libri tres in 1676 (the English edition, The Ornithology of Francis Willoughby. In three books wherein all the Birds ...
A rare, 16th century Hans Frei lute is held in the Market Hall Museum collections, and whilst this lute did not arrive in Warwickshire until the 20th century, the lute ...
