DESTINATION WARWICKSHIRE

Warwickshire is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon. The county has also produced other literary figures such as George Eliot (from near Nuneaton), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and Michael Drayton from Hartshill. It is also known for Warwick Castle and Kenilworth Castle.

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DISCOVER WARWICKSHIRE: Arbury Hall, Charlecote Park, Coombe Abbey, Coventry, Heritage Motor Centre, Kenilworth Castle, Mary Arden's Farm, River Avon, Rollright Stones, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Warwick Castle,

ARBURY HALL Arbury Hall is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and is the ancestral home of the Newdigate family. The hall is built on the site of a former monastery in a mixture of Tudor and 18th-century Gothic architecture, the latter being the work of Sir Roger Newdigate from designs by Henry Keene ...

CHARLECOTE PARK Charlecote Park is a grand 16th century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. The Lucy family, who came to England with William the Conqueror, has owned the land since 1247 ...

COOMBE ABBEY Coombe Abbey is a hotel which has been developed from an historic grade I listed building and former country house. It is located roughly midway between Coventry and Brinklow in the countryside of Warwickshire, England. The house's original grounds are now a country park known as Coombe Country Park and run by Coventry City Council ...

DISCOVER COVENTRY Coventry Cathedral is one of the newer cathedrals in the world, having been built following the World War II bombing of the ancient cathedral by the Luftwaffe. Coventry motor companies have contributed significantly to the British motor industry, and it has two universities, the city centre-based Coventry University and the University of Warwick ...

HERITAGE MOTOR CENTRE The Heritage Motor Centre is a British motor museum and research centre, located adjacent to the Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre near Gaydon in Warwickshire, England. The centre is open to the public, and houses a collection of important vehicles, celebrating Britain's motoring heritage. It is affiliated to the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust ...

KENILWORTH CASTLE Kenilworth Castle is located in the town of the same name in Warwickshire, England. Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as 'the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship' ...

MARY ARDEN'S FARM Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House, is the farmhouse owned by Mary Shakespeare, the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Located in the village of Wilmcote, about three miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, the house has been maintained in good condition because it had been a working farmhouse over the centuries ...

THE RIVER AVON The Avon is a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Midlands of England. Also known as the Warwickshire Avon or Shakespeare's Avon. Improvements to aid navigation began in 1635, and a series of locks and weirs made it possible to reach Stratford ...

ROLLRIGHT STONES The Rollright Stones are a complex of megalithic oolitic limestone monuments near the villages of Long Compton, Great Rollright and Little Rollright in England, lying across the border between the counties of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. The complex consists of three separate sites: The King's Men, The King Stone and The Whispering Knights ...

DISCOVER STRATFORD-UPON-AVON Stratford-upon-Avon is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world. The Royal Shakespeare Company resides in Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, one of Britain's most important cultural venues ...

DISCOVER WARWICK Human activity on the site of the town dates back to the Neolithic, when a settlement may have been established. From the 6th century onwards, Warwick has been continuously inhabited. According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, in 914 Anglo Saxon Ethelfleda Lady of the Mercians and sister of king Edward the Elder of Wessex built a burh or fortified dwelling ...

WARWICK CASTLE Warwick Castle is a medieval castle in Warwick, the county town of Warwickshire. It sits on a bend on the River Avon. The castle was built by William the Conqueror in 1068 within or adjacent to the Anglo-Saxon burh of Warwick. It was used as a fortification until the early 17th century, when Sir Fulke Greville converted it to a country house ...

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