Author: Antony Farmer
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Lost / Renamed Locations
This page attempts to highlight those village locations that will no longer appear on a current map, including those names that have changed over the years. A map, from the 1960s, has been annotated with a key for a number of locations from the past 150 years or so. This was the first detailed map… Read more
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Early Nineteenth Century Map – and Places
Prior to the arrival of the railway in the middle of the nineteenth century, and before the Ordnance Survey started to produce their detailed and precise maps, the local plans of the area had quite a different look and feel. One such map was produced by John Cary, and published around 1806, and this article… Read more
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St Peter’s Memorial Index
In the early 1980s the Church Lawford and King’s Newnham Women’s Institute carried out an in-depth project to record the headstone memorials in St Peter’s Churchyard, with a focus on those from the 19th Century and earlier. The full report was produced as part of a National campaign by the WI to ensure such details… Read more
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Coventry Rail Timetable 1913
The Coventry Herald included details of the local rail services prior to the Great War – afterwards it advertised the local ABC Directory which could be purchased with this information. Read more
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Church Lawford Potted History 1924
Over the years various local directories have summarised the history of the two villages. This is an example of such an entry, from Kellys Directory of 1922, which gives a potted view of village history as seen at that time, along with details of the various charities. CHURCH LAWFORD, in Domesday “Leileford,” is a pleasant… Read more
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King’s Newnham Potted History 1921
Over the years various local directories have summarised the history of the two villages. The King’s Newnham entry was often far more detailed than might have been expected for a village of its size. This is an example of such an entry, from Kellys Directory of 1921, which gives a potted view of village history… Read more
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Further Archaeological Studies 1962 and 1973
In 1962 members of the Rugby Percival Guildhouse Archaeological Group initiate a study based on an aerial photograph of the parish which showed a possible archaeological site in the Rookery Hall Farm area of Church Lawford. The group had originally been formed to look at the site of a Roman Town called Tripontium in the… Read more
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School Street Auction Lots
This page is linked from the main page on School Street here. The entries for the cottages in the 1918 auction were as follows (the house on the corner of School Street and Smithy Lane) – noted on the plan below them in the lot numbers and colours indicated. They are shown in an clockwise… Read more
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Church Road Auction Lots
This page is linked from the main page on Church Road here. The entries for the cottages in the 1918 auction were as follows (including those fronting on to the Village Green partially in Little End / Green Lane) – noted on the plan below them in the lot numbers and colours indicated: Read more
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Property Mapping – Lawford East
This page attempts to consider the status of the various villages properties over a period of around 120 years – from 1850 to 1970. It makes extensive use of Ordnance Survey Maps (full credit below), especially those of the biggest scales as made available by the National Library of Scotland Maps at https://maps.nls.uk/index.html There is an option to compare… Read more