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 Saltway (Sealt Straet) referred to in a charter of AD 956. This was part of a major cross country routeway running eastwards from Stratford.
2 Maps illustrating part of route.
3 ...
Part of an Early Medieval trackway known as the 'Saltway'. It is mentioned in a charter of 969 AD. It is part of a major routeway across the country heading east from Stratford upon Avon. It may have originated during the Roman period.
1 A small iron pot was recovered during the topsoil stripping for the base of a new detached timber storage building. It appeared to have been used for melting lead.
A small iron pot was recovered during the topsoil stripping for the base of a new detached timber storage building. It appeared to have been used for melting lead. The site is 10m south of St James's Church, Walton.
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.
1 In 1086 there were three mills in the manor and one or more may have stood on this site. Two mills are mentioned in the 16th to 17th century, ...
Wellesbourne Mill for which there is documentary evidence from the Medieval period. It operated until 1958. The building dates from 1834. It has an internal breast shot wheel and workable machinery. It stands 1km south east of the church.
1 A small quantity of Roman pottery and tile were found in the grounds of Walton Hall during landscaping and earth removal.
Findspot - pottery and tile dating to the Roman period were found 900m south of Walton.
1 Well-defined cropmark complex visible on a number of aerial photographs.
2 Probable settlement complex formed of large rectangular enclosures and smaller enclosures – at least one of which is probably ...
The site of a possible settlement of unknown date. It has been identified from large rectangular enclosures and smaller enclosures, which are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is located 200m south of Smatchley Wood.
2 Pit alignments, penannular gullies, pits and enclosures indicate a probable Iron Age settlement site.
3 Dating revised to Late Bronze Age – Iron Age.
Pit alignments, gullies and enclosures are visible on aerial photographs and possibly indicate the site of a settlement dating to the Iron Age. It is located 500m west of Walton Wood.
1 Find of a tile by Alan Griffin (the Old Forge, Walton). The tile could represent a warped Roman tegulae or a Post Medieval pantile. The fabric is unknown but ...
Findspot - a tile, possibly dating to the Roman period, was found 400m east of Walton.
1 A semi sunken air raid shelter with earth covering. Internally about 28ft (8.5m) long and 6ft 8ins (2m) wide and has an arched roof with 6ft 3ins (1.9m) clearance ...
The site of an air raid shelter which was in use during the Second World War. It is semi-sunken with an earth covering and is situated to the north east of RAF Wellesbourne Mountfield.
Having rented a summer home in Lochs, she called together a group of girls in the Scottish Highlands, and started her first troop of Girl Guides. When she returned to ...
2 Linear and subcircular cropmarks show on aerial photographs.
3 Dating narrowed to within the Neolithic and Romano British periods.
Linear and sub-circular features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It has been suggested that they are evidence of a possible settlement of Prehistoric date. They are located 250m west of Walton Wood.
1 Chancel, nave, W porch and a small bell turret. Of grey stone. The chapel, originally a chapel of Wellesbourne, was rebuilt by Sir Charles Mordaunt in 1750 and was ...
The parish church of St James was originally a small chapel. It was built in the 18th century and was enlarged in 1842. It is located north of Walton Hall.
Mrs Delany was born Mary Granville in Coulston, Wiltshire, in 1700. At the age of 17, she was married off to the nearly 60 year old Alexander Pendarves, a wealthy ...
1 The sandstone ashlar bridge was constructed between 1791 and 1839. It was widened sometime between 1840 and 1887. The bridge parapets had been repeatedly repaired in the 20th century. ...
Sandstone ashlar bridge. The earliest part of the bridge dated to the late 18th/Early 19th century. Now demolished due to it being a cause of flooding. It was formerly Grade II Listed.
1 On Bath Hill is the Bath House, which gives birth to a copious spring issuing from a basin 31cm long, 20cm broad and 15cm deep. The lower part of ...
A folly dating to the Imperial period. It is situated in Bath House Wood. There were suggestions that it was a Roman bath house but recent investigation revealed that the whole building dates to the 18th or 19th century, though the gazebo did contain a spring or bath.
1 Moreton Hall built 1907-8 by W.H. Romaine Walker for American Charles Garland. Grounds include terraces, formal gardens, avenue, yew-hedged enclosures and grotto. Now Warwickshire College. Recommended for inclusion on ...
Park and grounds surrounding the early 20th century mansion of Moreton Hall. The features of the park include a formal garden, walks, terraces and a grotto.
1 Four trial trenches were excavated. Observation was subsequently carried out during topsoil stripping in the south-west of the development and during excavation of the foundation trenches for two ...
Post-medieval features, including an 18th century wall, an earlier well, and a 19th century outbuilding, were recorded close to the street frontage of Wellesbourne Road, Barford.
1 Early 19th century house c.1860 by T.T.Allen on older site. Has associated 20th century gardens. Features include parkland, pond, pleasure grounds, kitchen garden, orchard. Recommended for inclusion on Local ...
Loxley Hall grounds, a park dating from the Imperial period, now incorporating modern gardens. Part of the parkland is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886/7. The grounds are situated to the north of Loxley.
1 Town Field, Walton. Scene of a skirmish after the Battle of Edge Hill, relics of the fight having been from time to time dug up.
2 OS Card.
The site of a possible battlefield as suggested from finds that have been discovered from time to time. It is believed it may be the site of a skirmish after the Battle of Edgehill, during the Post Medieval period. The site is located 900m south of Walton.
1 (Marginal). Exhibited by E P Shirley. An iron prick-spur covered with a white metal, found in digging the foundations of a bridge on the E and W junction railway ...
Findspot - an iron spur dating to the Medieval period was found in the parish of Walton.
1 (Marginal). A gentleman of Leamington, in a communication to the present writer, records the discovery of a Palaeolithic flake in river gravel at Walton. Other flint implements were also ...
Findspot - a flint flake dating to the Palaeolithic period was found 400m south east of Walton.
1 Two scrapers and three flakes at Kineton Road, foot of Friz Hill.
2 Noted.
3 The grid reference is approximate.
4 Dating changed from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age to the ...
Findspot - two flint scrapers and three flint flakes dating to between the Mesolithic and Bronze Age were found 700m north east of Walton.