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A History of the County of Warwick
… projected north of Whitmore Park towards Keresley. To the south-west of the river, the land rises to Great and Little Heaths in Foleshill, and, on the south and east of it, to Wyken and Sowe commons. To the … the land rises to Hawkesbury, and a stream runs south-west and south from Hawkesbury through Wyken Pool to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 64 later known as the Harnall or Swanswell Brook, ran south across Foleshill Road and by Swanswell Pool above the mill there. In the east the Spitalmoor Brook ran south-west from Stoke Heath to Spital Moor to meet the … north and the city wall and Bastille or Dern Gate on the south. A leet order of 1439 confirmed the hospital's ancient …
A History of the County of Warwick
… penetration of the district appears to have been from the south and east, and early settlement is associated with more fully developed field-systems. At Stivichall, south of Coventry, the field-system included almost the whole … last. In the small parishes of Willenhall and Wyken on the south and east, in Coundon and Keresley on the west, and in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the hills surrounding it, with a tongue of land stretching south from the high ground to the headwaters of Springfield … draining into the Hall Brook, and at Keresley Heath in the south, along Tamworth or Keresley Road, which formed the … now part of Coventry. In the early 19th century the area south of Tamworth Road between it and Brownshill Green Road …
A History of the County of Warwick
… as Shortley lay along the River Sherbourne immediately south of New Gate, Gosford Street and Far Gosford Street, and … manor, and on the west roughly by London Road. On the south it was divided from Pinley by a line running … to Pinley Gardens. The district is crossed from north to south by the railway from Stoke which joins that from …
A History of the County of Warwick
… as it is now sometimes spelt) lay about 1½ mile south of the city of Coventry. It comprised 818 acres in … with the River Sowe; and the southern by the Sowe. On the south-west the boundary followed a stream, once called the … the old Stivichall boundary, and, as Kenilworth Road, runs south-west across Stivichall Common before falling to Canley …
A History of the County of Warwick
… called Biggin Hall, stood on a moated site 300 yards south of the hamlet on the Binley road until the mid 19th … junction of Walsgrave Road and Church Lane, immediately south of the parish church. 90 A chapel has been supposed to … west, along Binley Road to Binley Bridge on the east, and south towards Pinley. 97 The field name most commonly used …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 539 acres to Ansty civil parish, and 555 acres in the south to Combe Fields civil parish, all in Rugby Rural … 44 The parish was bounded by the River Sowe only in the south-west, near the village. To the east of the village is … the medieval Draybrook and 17th-century Drawbrook, running south-west to the Sowe, and beyond the valley are Walsgrave …
A History of the County of Warwick
… former hamlet and civil parish of Willenhall lay two miles south-east of Coventry between the River Sowe and the River … to Coventry County Borough and 308 acres in the south-east to Baginton civil parish in Warwick Rural … of Willenhall was bounded by the River Sowe, the south and south-east by the Avon and by the valley of a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of land about two miles long and half a mile wide, on the south and west of the river, stretching from Courthouse Green … Road. The Caludon estate stretched from the River Sowe, south of Sowe Bridge, westwards to the high ground near Stoke … from Coventry towards Leicester through Caludon and the south of Wyken, crossing the River Sowe at Clifford Bridge. …