It may seem curious to discover that the woman who eventually founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America spent a good portion of her life in Wellesbourne. ...
Although we lived in Wellesbourne, my brother and I started at Ashorne School in the Michaelmas Term 1972. Our mum used to drop us off on the way to work. ...
1 Charlecote House was begun in 1558 for Thomas Lucy; at this period the house was surrounded by formal gardens and a deer park. The park was remodelled by Capability ...
A landscape park dating to around 1757 and designed by Capability Brown, though some redesigning was undertaken in the 19th century. The features include a ha-ha, clumps, a lake and a lodge. Kitchen garden. Charlecote Park is marked on the Ordnance Survey maps from 1886.Recommended to review Register entry by Lovie.
1 Various air photographs.
2 Possible Saxon palace site of 2-3 ha in extent on the S end of a spur overlooking the Avon. Two charters of 781 exist. Information on ...
Linear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Subsequent excavation and radiocarbon dating have confirmed that this is an Anglo Saxon settlement, possibly a palace, dating to the Migration period. It is situated 500m north east of Boscobel.
1 Ice house marked.
2 This is one of two icehouses at Walton Hall (see PRN 4902). The icehouse has now disappeared. There is no depression or mound to show its ...
The site of an icehouse dating to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The bricks from the domed roof were apparantly removed during the 20th century. It was located 700m south of Walton.
Violent conduct of runaways
The …Courier reports that on Sunday evening there was an “extraordinary and unprecedented occurrences at the Warwickshire Reformatory School for Boys at Weston under Wetherley, with 41 ...
The University of Warwick marks its 50th anniversary in 2015. The establishment of the University of Warwick was given approval by the government in 1961 and received its Royal Charter ...
By a quirk of administrative boundary changes, Warwickshire’s home at Edgbaston is not in the current county. Delve back to its early years however, and some of the key places ...
I was asked to research butler William Parsons for a mini project organized by the Family and Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS). I was told that 40 year old William ...
Constance Linda Lucy (known as Linda) was 18 years old when she started this diary. She was the second of four daughters of Henry Spencer Lucy and his wife Christina. ...
The secondary school which I attended, Kineton High, was in sight of Edgehill, where the first major battle of the British Civil War was fought. A story used to go ...
After leaving school in 1983, I went to Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, as it then was, at the start of the Michaelmas Term in 1983 to study a BTEC Higher National ...
Although I was in 1st Wellesbourne Hastings Cub Scouts, I joined the sea scouts in Newbold-on-Stour in about 1976.
The scout hut itself was actually a mile outside Newbold-on-Stour – there ...
1 The possible extent of the Medieval settlement, based on the first edition 6″ maps of 1886, 45 SE and 51 NE.
2 Market (Letter close) mercatum Tuesdays granted 28th August, ...
The possible extent of the Medieval settlement of Kineton, as suggested by the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. Kineton is considered a 'typical' example of medieval urban failure.
1 Marked as ‘The Town’ on map of 1728. Wolsey’s enquiry of 1517 was told that the whole village was destroyed in 1509.
3 Archaeological evidence medium (B), excellent documentary evidence ...
The site of the deserted settlement of Walton Deyville which dates to the Medieval period. Earthworks survive showing house platforms, the main village street and hollow ways. The village is also known from documentary evidence. It was located 900m south of Walton.
1 Excavations carried out in 1967 on site threatened by gravel extraction. The site shows on aerial photographs as a series of intersecting rectangular enclosures covering about 3.7 ha. An ...
Enclosures are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site was excavated prior to development. Ditches, pits, a semi-circular feature, and some occupational debris were found, suggesting a rural settlement of Roman date. It was situated 300m east of Hail End Bridge.
The former RAF bomber station at Gaydon on the Banbury Road played a pivotal role in Britain’s defence capabilities during the years of the so-called Cold War in the 1950s ...
As part of a volunteer research project for Warwickshire County Record Office, I’ve been looking through back copies of the Rugby Advertiser to look for items, 100 years since women achieved the ...
1 Early 18th century house shown with formal gardens in 1728 plan. Mid 18th century work included Bath House, possibly by Sanderson Miller. Late 18th century work included planting and ...
A park at Walton dating from the Post Medieval period. In the 19th century features of the park included woodland with a bath house, a lake, drives, pleasure grounds with terraces, formal gardens, a ha-ha and a kitchen garden. It is marked on Greenwoods map of 1822.