Joseph Ashby of Tysoe wrote about rural life in a series of articles called ‘Through Warwickshire Villages’ in the Warwick Advertiser during the 1890s; the following are extracts from one of ...
Stone tools found in the glacial deposits of the area are of Palaeolithic type but as they are casual surface finds, little can be interpreted from them. These glacial soils, ...
The Domesday Book of 1086 indicates that there were pre-Norman settlements at Stretton Baskerville, Burton Hastings, Copston, Withybrook, and Wolvey. This record tells us that the land in Wolvey (Ulveia) ...