1 One of five sites built to house airmen stationed at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. The site was cleared and is now forested.
2 Airfield plan – not to scale.
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. It is located in Red Hill Wood.
1 Site of Ice-house at Wellesbourne Hall, Wellesbourne.
Beamon and Roaf state that the ice-house is in good condition but filled with rubbish (1983). Although it is mentioned in a sale ...
Site of ice-house mentioned in grounds of Wellesbourne Hall. Position uncertain.
1 One of five sites built to accommodate RAF personnel near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared after the war and is now woodland.
2 Airfield plan – not to ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. It is located 100m south of Wellesbourne Wood.
1 The wireless telegraph (WT) station for RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. Principally used for communications with aircraft by morse code.
2 Airfield plan – not to scale.
The site of a wireless telegraph station. It was used by Wellesbourne Mountford airfield for communication with aircraft using morse code during the Second World War. It is located 300m west of Red Hill Wood.
1 A turnpike road established from 1770 onwards.
A toll road running from Upton to Wellesbourne. Travellers would have had to pay a toll to use the road during the Imperial period.
1 One of five sites built to accommodate RAF personnel near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared after the war and is now woodland.
2 Airfield plan – not to ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. It is located in Wellesbourne Wood.
1 A turnpike road established from 1770.
A toll road which ran from Wellesbourne to Stratford. It was established in the Imperial period. Travellers would have had to pay to use the road.
1 One of five sites built to house RAF personnel near to Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared and returned to agricultural use after the war.
2 Airfield plan – ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. The site is now in agricultural use and is located 200m north of Red Hill jWood.
1 One of five sites built to accommodate RAF personnel near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield. The site was cleared shortly after the war and returned to agricultural use.
2 Airfield plan – ...
The site of one of five barracks used by RAF personnel at Wellesbourne Mountfield airfield during the Second World War. The site is now in agricultural use and is located 700m north of Red Hill Wood.
1 Stone pit marked on OS 1886 1:10560.
The site of a quarry in use during the Imperial period is marked as a stone pit on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. It was located 200m west of Red Hill Wood.
1 Mile Post marked.
The site of a milepost dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1906. It was located 100m east of Manston Drive, Wellesbourne.
1 An underground command post (Type 1108/41) with protected observation cupola. For the defence of airfields primarily in the event of attack by paratroops. Now converted into a museum by ...
A battle headquarters site, an underground command post with protected observation cupola at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It was built for the purpose of coordinating the defence of the airfield during the Second World War, primarily in the event of an attack by paratroops.
1 Agricultural Buildings at Staple Hill Farm, Wellsbourne. Marked on OS 1st Edition.
2 Subject to a basic photographic record ahead of redevelopment.
Agricultural Buildings at Staple Hill Farm, Wellsbourne. Marked on OS 1st Edition.
1 At Flaxland Farm, Pillerton Priors, in a big field known as Coverwell, the RAF installed a dummy runway with landing lights and it was manned every night by RAF ...
The site of Pillerton Priors bombing decoy, a system of lights, fires or dummy objects. The decoy was used to prevent German bomber planes from dropping their bombs on the airfield at Wellesbourne. The decoy was situated to the south east of Pillerton Hersey.
1 Gas works founded in 1864. Most likely location is School Road, a road running adjacent to Kineton Road.
The possible site of gas works dating from the Imperial period, and founded in 1864. The probable location was in School Road, Wellesbourne.
1 Mile Post marked.
The site of a milepost dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1906. It was located 1km south of Wellesbourne on the Ettington Road.
1 Direction finding (D/F) stations enabled aircraft to find their position by taking bearings on two or three stations. The transmissions could be on Medium Frequency (M/F), High Frequency (H/F) ...
The site of a direction finding station which was used by aircraft to find their bearings. It is associated with Wellesbourne Mountford airfield and is situated 900m north of Red Hill Wood.
1 Greenwood’s map of 1822 shows a park/ plantation around Frizhill House.
Frizhill House grounds, a park dating to the Imperial period is marked on Greenwood's map of 1822. It is located 300m north east of Bath Hill Wood.
1 The disovery of a well was repoted by Sally Mann st WHRI on 1/3/2010.
The well is marked on the OS 2nd edition but not on the OS 1st edition.
The ...
A well that was found immediately to the west of the farm (Cottage Farm) at WHRI, Wellesbourne. The well appears to be of 19th century date and associated with the 19th century farm.
1 2 Barford House, Barford, Warwick.
Lovie reports that the early 19th century house is, at the time of his survey (1996/7) in very poor condition and that this might threaten ...
Pleasure grounds retaining much of their Regency character to the front of the house; condition of rear gardens unknown; kitchen garden; paddocks.
2 The yard comprises a long thin piece of ground, approximatly 68 metres long, and with an average width of about 10 metres. This widens to approximatly 20 metres ...
Purpose built wheelwright's workshop and blacksmith's forge which date to the Imperial period and were in existence by 1886. The yard is situated off Church Walk in Wellesbourne.
1 A three runway bomber airfield, with extra facilities for use by fighter aircraft, opened 12 July 1941. From July 1941 to Sept 1942 was a satellite to RAF Wellesbourne ...
RAF Atherstone on Stour, a Second World War bomber airfield with three runways. It opened in 1941 and closed in 1945. The airfield was situated to the north east of Atherstone on Stour.
1 Formal gardens around neo-Jacobean house built 1909-15 for Maj. Emmett. Features included canal, yew-hedged enclosure, rose garden, wild garden. Sold 1944, demolished 1959, grounds redeveloped. Lodges survive. Recommended for ...
Formal gardens laid in formal style around an early 20th century house, demolished in 1959; but a lodge survives. The gardens are located at Moreton Paddox.
1 Late 17th or early 18th century bridge of one span over Wellesbourne Brook. End pieces surmounted by ball finials, parapet with ‘blind’ balustrading on outside formed of fluted pilasters. ...
The site of a road bridge over the Wellesbourne Brook which George Lucy had built in 1755 to divert traffic away from Charlecote Park House. It was built in the Classic design by David Hiorn and is situated 300m east of Charlecote House.