Category: Locations and Layout
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Smithy Lane
Details of Smithy Lane history will be added here, including the ordering of the cottage numbers – outline here. There are five in the row in the first picture, numbered 160 to 164. See also the details for the Eastlands Farm / Wheatfield dwelling. A series of eight maps from around 1850 to 1970 help… Read more
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Church Lane / Church Road
Further history and local recollections about Church Lane / Church Road will be summarised here. Other memories of this road are referenced in village stories as follows Other memories for this part of the village would include the various restrictions that needed to be placed during the Foot and Mouth Outbreaks in the late 20th… Read more
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School Lane / School Street
The history and local recollections about School Lane / School Street will be added here. The following pictures are from various eras following the road from top to bottom – the first two show the Triangle Garage (with School Street starting on the right fork, and the view looking in the opposite direction down that… Read more
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Limestone Hall Lane
Limestone Hall Lane runs for 1.3 miles roughly north-south from the Coventry Road (A428) to Ling Lane. Starting at Coventry Road, next to the location of Ivy Cottage, it passes the annex to Burnhams Farm and the Church Lawford Business Centre before reaching the railway bridge over the Rugby to Birmingham line. It them goes… Read more
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The Manor House Farm Kings Newnham
Liz Parvin in her 2014 Village Newsletter history of Kings Newnham notes that at the time of the 1918 village sale, Manor House farm and Highfields farm were both farmed by Mr. William Dunn, who stayed there until the 1930’s. In 1938 both Highfields and Manor House farms, and several cottages, were up for sale again.… Read more
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The Laurels Farm
The history of this farm will be added here. Read more
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Kings Newnham Hall
Kings Newnham Hall has a rich history. Additional research is needed to give full justice to the story of the Hall, but the Brierly family history is discussed here, along with an interview with John Brierly from the Rugby Advertiser here. There is a separate discussion on the history of St Laurence’s church in the… Read more
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The Manor House Farm Church Lawford
The history of Manor Farm Church Lawford, along with the Manor House go back many centuries. This page looks at the history of the farm itself – separate pages will consider the Manor House itself – although there will necessarily be some repetition. During the 18th Century Manor Farm in Church Lawford was under the… Read more
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The Grange Farm
The history of this farm will be added here. Read more
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Mount Pleasant Farm
The first references to Mount Pleasant Farm were found in the early 19th Century, In the previous century the land in that area was allocated to a number of different tenants, and there was additional Glebe Land and an area known as Millers Ground which suggested there may have been a windmill in that area.… Read more