Category: Facilities and Services

Mail Services in the area began during the 19th Century, firstly as a town-based service – as detailed in this Rugby Advertiser clipping from 1852 During the second half of the 19th century the Mail service had been much improved, both in terms of cost and coverage. The universal penny post was introduced in 1840… Read more

The story of improved communication between the two villages and the outside world should perhaps focus on the various changes during the 20th century, but perhaps the changes started in the previous century, although rural areas clearly had to wait for new facilities to reach them. During the 19th century the Mail service had been… Read more

Telephone services came to Church Lawford and King’s Newnham in the late 1920s. There is a record for a phone connection to Manor Farm in Church Lawford and Newnham Hall in King’s Newnham from as early as 1927. The first telephones were manually operated as they pre-dated the electricity supply reaching the village, and their… Read more

Church Lawford Nursery was one of the biggest draws for visitors to the village for many years. It opened in mid-1960s as a small plant-oriented nursery, just beyond the houses at the bottom of Kings Newnham Road. It grew over the years to offer a complete retail range of plants, shrubs and trees with a… Read more

Although Church Lawford had a Grocers Shop from early in the nineteenth century, it was only after the Whiteman family then took over as the Village Grocer during the 1870s, that a Post Office was also opened. Prior to that date the local directories advised that the nearest money order office was in Rugby. (In… Read more