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Cheylesmore Manor Gatehouse(front view) The manor house in 1820, as painted by William Henry Brooke. Cheylesmore Manor Gatehouse is a grade II* listed building and the home of Coventry's Register office since 1965. [4] Parts of the building date back to 1250. Edward, the Black Prince, and Henry VI were among those who lived at the Manor House.
The CV postcode area, also known as the Coventry postcode area, [2] is a group of 24 postcode districts in central England, within eleven post towns. These cover the eastern part of the West Midlands county (including Coventry), most of Warwickshire (including Atherstone, Bedworth, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton, Rugby, Shipston-on-Stour, Southam, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick), a part ...
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Coventry (/ ˈ k ɑː v ə n t r i / KAH-vən-tree) is a town in Tolland County and in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,235 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The birthplace of Captain Nathan Hale , Coventry is home to the Nathan Hale Homestead , which is now a museum open to the public.
Coventry City Council controversially ignored 68.2% of people who did not vote in favour (5,220 votes against, 8,723 abstentions and 32 spoilt ballot papers) and pressed ahead with the transfer of 20,200 properties in an attempt to resolve legal issues surrounding widespread disrepair in Coventry City Council Housing and to absolve debt ...
In the post-WW2 period the area acquired a large ethnic minority population. It is now the only one of the 18 wards in Coventry where non-whites form a majority of the population. At the 2011 census, 50.1% of the population were Asian , 30.8% were White , 11% were Black , 3.5% were Mixed . 1.7% were Arab , and 3% belonged to another ethnic group.
The area's single surviving post office is located on Holbrook Lane. Holbooks Primary School is in the adjacent suburb of Foleshill . Schools for primary age (4–11) children in Holbrooks include Parkgate (one of the largest primary schools in Coventry), John Shelton Primary School, and Holy Family RC Primary School.
The son of Henry Eaton, he was head of William Eaton & Sons, China-silk brokers. He was also Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1865 to 1880, and from 1881 to 1887.The latter year, in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Honours, Eaton was raised to the peerage as Baron Cheylesmore, of Cheylesmore in the City of Coventry and County of Warwick.