1 ‘Townpool Bridge’ marked.
2 A bridge marked in this location.
3 Bridge of red sandstone, spanning the Finham Brook and an area to each side of the stream, with a flood ...
Townpool Bridge, the site of a Post Medieval bridge , which was marked on a map of 1692, and on an Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The present footbridge is of red sandstone, and crosses the Finham Brook at the southern end of Bridge Street.
1 The great flood of 1673 – one of the worst floods ever in the town – destroyed the Medieval Packsaddle Bridge, which carried traffic across the brook to the ...
Packsaddle bridge, the site of a Medieval bridge destroyed by a flood in 1673. Traces of the stone abutments are still visible in the banks of Finham Brook, just west of the present iron footbridge in the Abbey Fields.
1 Laneham mentions a great wooden bridge built across the great N arm of the Mere. Laneham records that Lord Leicester built a ‘fayre tymbred bridge’ 14 feet (4.2m) wide ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a Post Medieval bridge associated with Kenilworth Castle. It was built of timber across the north arm of the Mere. The site lies to the north of Castle Green.
1 A drovers road with wide verges for pasturing animals. The road winds its way through farming country, generally avoiding centres of population. Road is mentioned on 18th ...
A trackway or drove road, known as the Welsh Way, which has existed since the Medieval or Post Medieval period. It was used by drovers to move cattle to the markets. The Leamington Road out of Kenilworth now marks the line of the trackway.