1 To the north of Warwick was Guy Cliffe Grove, recorded in 1422-3 and 1483 The site is suggested by the enclosure award for St. Nicholas’s parish, which included ...
Medieval woodland formerly Guy Cliffe Grove
Although somewhat dilapidated in the present day, Guy’s Cliffe House has had a full history, with much change over a number of years. Even in its current isolated state off ...
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1 Guy’s Cliffe, Warwick.
Lovie reports pleasure grounds with mixed planting, walks and riverside walk to Mill, and terrace walk above river to SE, drive, lodge, avenue, Guy’s Cave, Guy’s Well, ...
Pleasure grounds with mixed planting and walks along river. Kitchen garden.
1 Find of a rim sherd of Roman grey ware in a field near Guy’s Cliffe.
2 Romano-British pottery has been found on the surface of a field N of a ...
Findspot - a fragment of Roman pottery was found in a field 370m north east of The Saxon Mill public house.
1 Lord Algernon Percy of Guy’s Cliffe had four coins (silver of Antoninus Pius, Commodus, bronze of Nero) which were found at Blacklow Hill. Others are believed to have been ...
Findspot - four Roman coins were found on the south side of Blacklow Hill.
1 Icehouse in one of rock cut chambers under chapel of Guy’s Cliffe House. Not known whether chamber was cut specifically for icehouse or whether existing chamber reused – some ...
An icehouse, a structure built partly underground and used for the storage of ice in wamer weather. It was built during the Imperial period and was situated under the chapel of Guy's Cliffe House. The site lies 80m north east of Guy's Cliffe Stud.
1 A flint flake from the E bank of the river by the mill bridge.
2 Thornton records a flint flake from a gravel pit at Guy’s Cliffe at Coventry Museum.
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Findspot - a flint artefact of Mesolithic or Bronze Age date was found 30m north east of the Saxon Mill Weir, Old Milverton.
1 Elizabethan and Tudor coinage has been recovered at Lion House, according to the owner, together with a variety of Medieval/Post Medieval pottery sherds and 40+ stamped pipe-stems from the ...
Findspot - various Medieval and Post Medieval finds recovered in the vicinity of Lion House, Church End, including pottery and coins.
On a recent visit to Avoncroft Museum I was delighted to find at least three items from Warwickshire (and may have missed others). This museum has historic buildings (rescured from ...
1 A Saxon origin is claimed. The mill was the property of Kenilworth Priory in the 12th century. There are many references in the 16th century relating to two, and ...
The Saxon Mill at Guy's Cliffe, a watermill which may be Saxon in origin.There is documentary evidence for a mill at this site from the Medieval onwards. In 1952 the stone buildings were converted into a restaurant. A small waterwheel survives.
1 Chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene near the site of a hermitage (PRN 2233). In 1423 Richard, Earl of Warwick, was licensed to found a chantry in honour of ...
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Guy's Cliffe, Warwick. It was built in the Medieval period, possibly in the 13th century, and rebuilt in the 15th century.
1 Soon after 1757 Samuel Greatheed built a new and larger house on the site of the old house (PRN 2234). Later alterations and additions have obscured this house except ...
Guy's Cliffe House, a ruined building dating to the Imperial Period. It is situated on the outskirts of north Warwick.
As Clandon Park House in Surrey went up in flames so quickly in April 2015, it showed once again how fragile the items of the past could be. To me, ...
The Chinese New Year has just started: the year of the sheep. That’s an excuse to show off some of our Warwickshire lambs along with blackthorn flowering. Blackthorn is usually ...
The massacre at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, occurred on 16th August 1819, at a meeting of 60,000 people gathered to hear the orator Henry Hunt talk on electoral reform. The meeting ...
Guy’s Cliffe House just outside Warwick lies on a good exposure of middle Triassic sandstone. The rock is a geological site of special scientific interest and on the geological conservation ...