Category: Village Maps
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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
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White’s Warwickshire Map 1850
In 1850 a publication from F White & Co provided a comprehensive view of the County of Warwickshire, plus the city of Birmingham, right down to the village level – see below. Along with this text a map was produced especially for the guide, showing the whole of the county – and an extract of… Read more
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Current Parish Layout
This section outlines the current parish layout, using the map displayed on the Village Notice Board. More specific details on the various streets and lanes in the Parish can be found here, and further old maps, are highlighted separately here. A more contemporary view can be seen on the Village Information Board, sited on the village green, This map dates… Read more
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1918 Auction Maps
As part of the Auction of land and properties in 1918, various colour-coded maps were created. This allows a view of the overall Parish, the outlying farms, the Village Centre of Church Lawford and King’s Newnham Village, using a number of maps. This map shows the extent of the King’s Newnham Parish area in the… Read more
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Original Ordnance Survey Maps
Although the early detailed Manor Maps, as discussed here, provided the Lord of the Manor with a view of his properties, there became a need for detailed maps of the whole country for defence purposes. The Ordnance Survey provided these maps, with a major mapping project throughout the early 19th Century. 1830s Map of the… Read more
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Mid-Twentieth Century Detailed Maps
The Ordnance Survey Maps of the area were updated during the middle of the twentieth century, and a set of detailed maps (1:2500 scale) were surveyed and published in the early 1960s, with ongoing reference to wartime features such as RAF Church Lawford, as well as detailing some of the new housing in King’s Newham… Read more
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Britannia Maps
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were various studies made by eminent historians, both of the country, and of the county. John Speed produced invaluable maps in his “Theatre of Great Britain”, and William Camden looked at the history and topography of Great Britain in extreme detail in his “Britannia”, first published in 1586,… Read more
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Henry Beighton Map – 1725/9
In 1725 Henry Beighton carried out a survey of Warwickshire, and the resultant maps were published in 1729, including as an update to the “Antiquities of Warwickshire” work written by William Dugdale. The key to these maps indicates that the churches are drawn to their true shape and of four sizes as they bear proportion… Read more
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1720 Tithe Mapping – King’s Newnham
A Tithe map for the village, along with details of farmers and villagers, dated around 1720, has been kept in the records of Lord John Scott and published in various locations. A copy of the Lord John Scott maps are held in the Warwick Records Centre – the originals are in the Montage Family Archive.… Read more