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Hill Close Gardens is a group of 18 surviving Victorian detached gardens on a hillside in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It is listed Grade II* in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. [1]
The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton, near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built around 1632–1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House.
The parish, which was formerly mainly rural, contains the village of Whittle-le-Woods, and agricultural land has been used for residential development in and around the village. Many of the listed buildings are, or originated as, farmhouses and farm buildings, some of which contain former loomshops that were
On 16 September 2006 the first Napton Festival was held at Holt Farm on Holt Road. The headline act was the hard rock band Girlschool. The festival was repeated in the same place in 2007, with two stages and with The Sweet and the Hollies as its main acts. In 2008 the main acts were Bad Company on the main stage and Aynsley Lister in the ...
Nuneaton (/ n ə ˈ n iː t ən / nə-NEE-tən) is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire to the north-east. [1] Nuneaton's population at the 2021 census was 88,813, [2] making it the largest town in Warwickshire.
The farm from which the suburb most directly takes its name, Sydenham Farm, first appeared on maps in 1887. On the farm land during World War Two an anti aircraft gun was positioned. In June 1903 Buffalo Bill brought his Wild West Show to the area, with the animals and staging arriving at Leamington Spa railway station before being brought on ...
Maxstoke is a hamlet and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, England. [1] It is situated approximately 2.5 miles north of Meriden . Maxstoke and the parish of Maxstoke were established in the hundred of Hemlingford .
Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England, eight miles north of Banbury.At the 2011 census, it had a population of 808. [1] Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Fennig Cumbtūn meaning "marshy farmstead in a valley".