Archive Timeline and Index

The timeline below has links to details and stories relating to the items in question. See the separate St Peter’s Timeline for more church-specific events.

To get a complete index of the archive please view the list below, plus the category list and the page list.

Date	Event
Early Times	Mesolithic Findings
43-410	Roman Era – Local Sites and Finds
450-1066	Saxon Era – Domesday Survey
1066-1500	Norman Era / Middle Ages – Monastic Influences
1509-1750	Post-Reformation – Historic Sites and People
1575	Parish Records created and preserved
1575	King’s Newnham Baths rediscovered
1675	John Ogilby publishes his set of Britannia Route Maps
1700-1800	Early Village Maps
1720	Earliest Housing Map For Church Lawford
1720	Tithe Map for King’s Newnham
1725/9	Henry Beighton Map for Knightlow Hundred
1750-1900	Up to and through Victorian Times – Newnham Discoveries
1795	Newnham Regis Review in Samuel Ireland Book on River Avon.
1801	First Church Lawford Village Census
1815	Bones of Siberian Rhinoceros Discovered in Kings Newnham
1831/32	Oldest Local Ordnance Survey Maps for Parishes
1840	Last Reference to “The Yeoman” public house.
1841	First King’s Newnham Village Census
1849	First Village School Opens
1849-50	Tithe Register Published – Earliest Field and Property Level Mapping Available
1852 / 3	Discovery of Historic Remains in King’s Newnham
1872 / 3	Church Rebuild
1873	Matthew Holbeche Bloxam writes about the two villages and the road that passes to surrounding villages.
1875	Village Life in the 1870s
1876	Choral Festival
1880	Village Post Office established with improvements to Mail Services
1885	Rugby Parliamentary Constituency Established
1887	Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
1891	Final Census of 19th Century
1893	Noted history of Newnham Regis and Church Lawford produced by Rev Walter O Wait.
1897	Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
1902	Edward VII Coronation Celebrations
1903 / 5	First Large Scale Ordnance Survey Map of Villages
1909	King’s Newnham and Church Lawford Triennial Festival
1911	George V Coronation Celebrations
1911	Census of 1911
1912	Reading Room Opening Ceremony
1913	Local Cyclone / Tornado
1914-1918	The Great War of 1914-1918
1918	Property Auction – Church Lawford and King’s Newnham (with index)
1921	Unveiling of the War Memorial
1921	John Brierly Observations and Recollections
1921	Most Recent Publicly Available Census
1920/30s	Ron Hence’s Recollections
1920/30s	Syd Cresswell Recollections
1925	May Parade and May Queen Celebration
1920/30s	Telephony Services and Village Phone Box established
1931	Most Recent Widely Available Electoral Roll
1932	First Flying Display at Lawford Heath
1935	Silver Jubilee of George V
1937	Coronation Festivities (George VI)
1939-1945	Second World War 1939-1945
1939	Evacuees From Willesden Arrive
1939	National Register taken, and Identity Cards Issued.
1940	Coventry Blitz – Refugees from Coventry arrive.
1945	15000 Attend RAF Church Lawford Open Day
1950s	The Post War Period
1953	Coronation Festivities (Queen Elizabeth II)
1954	The Village Stocks Debate
1955-57	Post-War Housing Changes Continue
1959	Cottage Numbering Replaced by Street Numbering
1960	A Village Divided – thoughts of Chum Dyer and others
1962	Church Lawford Archaeological Dig
1962/3	The Great Freeze of 1963
1963	Closure of RAF Church Lawford
1964	A New Village School Opens
1967	Nationwide Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
1970 / 72	Power Cuts Affect The Nation
1971	Alf Day’s Recollections
1970s to 2000	A Period of Change Ending The Century
1971-1973	School Reduced to Middle School Status
1977	Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee
1983	Boundary Changes dissolve original Rugby constituency
1991	Sand and Gravel Extraction Begins at Ling Hall Quarry
1996	Closure of Village School
1998	Work Towards a New Village Hall Begins
2000	Millennium Celebrations
2001	Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis
2002	Airport Threat to the Villages
2002	Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee
2002-03	Anti-Airport Campaign
2003	Anti-Airport Campaign is Successful
2008	Opening of New Village Hall
2011	Closure of Church Lawford Nursery (Opened in 1960s)
2012	Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
2018	New Avon Footbridge opened
2018	Marking 100 years since World War 1 Ended
2023	Marking 150 years since St Peters Rebuild