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Kenilworth Runners meets at Kenilworth Sporting in Gypsy Lane. The club caters for runners of all ages and abilities. [57] Octavian Droobers is the local orienteering club, using maps of Abbey Fields and Kenilworth Common on which to stage events. Kenilworth Wheelers meets all the year round on Saturday and Sunday morning for a road ride.
St Mary's Abbey was signed over to King Henry VIII on 15 April 1538 [2] with Abbot Simon Jekys receiving a handsome annual pension of £100 (the prior, John Lister, only received a pension of £8 with the remaining monks receiving between £5 and £7). The abbey was then dismantled at part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. By about 1700 ...
Abbey Fields is a 68-acre (28 ha) park that is found in the centre of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. The park was once farmland belonging to St Mary's Abbey, which was dissolved in the middle of the sixteenth century and is now ruined. St Nicholas Church, with origins from the twelfth century, remains in the park.
The historic town of Kenilworth, with a population of around 23,000, is the largest settlement in the area, with the small town of Southam (8,000) second. There are plenty of small villages, hamlets and farms elsewhere. The seat completely surrounds the much more urban Warwick and Leamington constituency.
The district also includes the towns of Kenilworth and Whitnash and surrounding villages and rural areas. Leamington Spa, Warwick and Whitnash form a conurbation which has about two thirds of the district's population. [2] The neighbouring districts are Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon, Solihull and Coventry.
Geoffrey de Clinton, who was Chamberlain and Treasurer to King Henry I, founded the Augustinian priory (later abbey) of St Mary the Virgin in 1119 and Kenilworth Castle in the early 1120s. About the same time Clinton founded a borough of Kenilworth and a deer park , but there is no record of a parish church for local laity being founded at the ...
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The parish had a population of 1,120 at the 2021 Census. [1] ... it was built by monks from Kenilworth Abbey, and the first record of a priest here was from 1252.