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A History of the County of Warwick
… were built in the 1840s: in 1841 St. Paul, Foleshill Road, and St. Peter, Canterbury Street, to cater for the … and in Harnall; 70 and in 1849 St. Thomas, Albany Road, for which a parish had been created in 1844 to serve … Nicholas, situated further out of Coventry along Radford Road, was consecrated as a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the roads around Coventry lies on the line of a Roman road: there was no Roman settlement on the site, and the … Watling Street, nine miles to the north-west. The modern road pattern had for the most part been established by at … addition was made in the 20th century when a by-pass road was completed in 1940 3 around the south and west sides …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Earl's Mill, and a horse-driven mill between the Radford Road and St. Nicholas Street were possibly fulling mills, as … Cook Street and St. Agnes Lane and between the Radford Road and St. Nicholas Street, and at least two grounds lay …
A History of the County of Warwick
… their own court under an elective justice. The town was a road centre with bars at the main entries, a ditch and … 11th century to a centre of many flourishing trades and of road communications by the end of the 13th, presupposes a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and the network of streets between it, the Butts, Queen's Road, and Queen Victoria Road; at Spon End; and in the Chapel Fields area to the west. … Lord Street 7, 5 in watchmaking, and Allesley Old Road 7, again with 5 in watchmaking. The watchmakers' shops …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 10 This suggests that Coventry was already an important road centre, a supposition confirmed by the presence of bars … and by the 16th century at the latest the main coach road from London to Holyhead passed through the city. 12 In … of the site, together with its distance from any Roman road or well-attested Roman or pre-Roman settlement, suggest …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and dangerous. 6 AGNES LANE.See St. Agnes Lane. ALBANY ROAD* (1898), 7 also known as the Jetty, runs from the Butts* … 13 runs NW. as a continuation of Hill Street* and Coundon Road*, in the direction of Coundon. The Barkers' Butts were … the line of the ditch of the earls' castle. 21 BINLEY ROAD (1887, continuing as Lutterworth Road) 22 is one of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
A History of the County of Warwick
… workhouse and the poor-law infirmary, which became Gulson Road Hospital. The council established a public assistance … Lane was transferred to the corporation, in 1928 Windmill Road cemetery was taken over from Foleshill parish council, … the newly-enclosed Windmill Hill Fields (1876), and Eaton Road (1880) consisted of medium-sized or large houses. 87 In …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of Gosford Bridge at the point where the present Gulson Road crosses the river. The mill was in existence by c. 1200. … year, granted it with other property to Thomas Docwra and Bartholomew Hales. They conveyed it in 1573 to the … of the mills granted by John Hales to Thomas Docwra and Bartholomew Hales in 1572, and conveyed by them to the …