The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Bishops Itchington

Nearby dog friendly beer garden at The Shakespeare pub

We had to double back on ourselves slightly to see the lakes, as they were hidden behind a hedge

The Burton Dassett war memorial is to be found on the village green on Bottom Street, Burton Dassett. It takes the form of a Latin Cross with flared ends, an octagonal column, square plinth and a two stepped base. There are 15 names for World War 1 and 10 for World War 2 in th eform of an additional brass plaque containing details of an American Bomber crew unrelated to the village that crashed there. The memorial wa sunveiled by General Gage 22nd January 1922, the monies being raised by public subscription; the masons were J F Booth and Sons. The memorial was fully restored between 1996 and 1997 to commemorate the centenary of the parish council. The original masons Booths became Hornton Quarries Ltd, so the restoration of 1996 was carried out by the same firm that built the memorial in 1921. The parish incorporates the villages of Northend and Knightcote. The memorial is exceedingly weather worn and could do with a refurbishment.

This Methodist Church has been here since 1837.

There is documentary evidence for a windmill here from the Post Medieval period and possibly earlier. It was of the post mill type and was restored in the 1930s but blew down in the 1946. It was at Windmill Hill. The beacon is what is left.

The Peyto Gateway on the north side of St Giles Church, Chesterton, Warwickshire, England, used by the Peyto Family when their manor house was there. Gateway. Probably 1630's. For Sir Edward Peyto and copy of a design by Inigo Jones. English bond red brick with moulded, cut and rubbed brick. Classical style. Round arch with keyblock, pilasters, entablature and pediment. Pilasters, wall, and arch have intermittent rustication. It is likely that this gateway was built at about the same time as Chesterton Windmill (q.v.). It is a close copy, at about three-quarters scale, of one of the two churchyard gateways flanking Jones' St Paul, Covent Garden, of 1631, see Vitruvius Britannicus (ii, 1717, pl 21-2).

Burton Dassett Hills Country Park boasts 100 acres (40 ha) of rolling hills with breathtaking panoramic views. On a clear day, views stretch beyond Coventry. Opened in 1971, the park contains many historical sites, including the ironstone quarry remains and the 12th-century All Saints Church.

The parish church of All Saints, Harbury. It was first built in the Medieval period, but rebuilt and much altered in more recent times (Imperial period). The church is situated to the south east of Harbury Hall. Church. C13. Tower later C13, with top part possibly 1811. Restored and enlarged 1873: nave largely rebuilt, south aisle widened, north aisle and organ chamber/vestry added. Chancel, south aisle and tower of squared coursed limestone rubble. Chancel has some sandstone and sandstone dressings. South aisle has ironstone dressings. Upper part of tower of Flemish bond brick. Nave, north aisle and chapel of regular coursed limestone with ironstone dressings. Tile roofs have coped stone gable parapets with weatherings and kneelers and remains of cross finials. Stone stack. Aisled nave, chancel, north chapel and south-west tower. 2-bay chancel, 5-bay nave. Buttresses of 2 offsets throughout. Chancel has splayed plinth. Diagonal buttresses. C19 geometrical and bar tracery and hood moulds with block stops throughout. 3-light east window. Small studded plank south door in chamfered surround. 2 straight-headed 2-light traceried windows. Small C13 low-side chamfered lancet. C13 north lancet. South aisle has diagonal and south buttresses. 3-light east window. C19 Early English style double-leaf south door in angle abutting tower has inner continuous roll moulding and roll moulded arch on nook shafts. Two 3-light windows. Nave has shallow south-west and large north-west buttress. 4-light west window. Organ chamber/vestry has 3-light east window. Chamfered north doorway. Lateral stack with offsets. North aisle has east angle, west diagonal and north buttresses. Doorway in fourth bay, similar to south side, has moulded arch with nailhead. 3-light windows; second bay has reticulated tracery. 3-light west window. Tower of 3 stages has massive west setback buttresses of 4 offsets. South buttress has painted sundial. South east clasping buttress. South and west lancets. Second stage, partly of 1811, has south clock face of c.1835 set in lozenge panel. Small round-arched window, largely of brick, above. Small blocked west window. Moulded string course. Third stage has clasping buttresses. Small round-arched bell openings with wooden louvres and cut-out quatrefoils. Plain cornice. Crenellated parapet. Interior: chancel has C19 hammerbeam roof. Wide segmental-pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders to organ chamber and vestry. Wide chancel arch of 2 continuous chamfered orders. 3-bay south arcade of c.1300, of 2 chamfered orders with bar stops, and octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Similar 5-bay north arcade of 1873. Wide south tower arch of 3 chamfered orders, the outer segmental-pointed and the inner with moulded imposts. Nave, aisles and chapel have arched braced queen strut roofs of 1873, with wind braces to nave. Organ chamber has arch to aisle of 2 chamfered orders, the outer segmental-pointed. South aisle has timber internal porch. Renewed west arch to tower of 3 chamfered orders, the inner with moulded imposts, the outer segmental pointed. Fittings: mostly of c.1873. Carved stone reredos. Chancel has encaustic tiled floor. Octagonal font. Timber octagonal pulpit, north aisle screen and benches. Chancel and south aisle have mid C18 communion rails with column-on-vase balusters, those in aisle possibly imported from elsewhere. Early C17 carved chest. Stained glass: east and chancel north windows c.1873. Chancel south east 1890, centre 1899, south-west 1897. Tower south c.1873. Monuments: tower east: early C18. Wall monument with Corinthian pilasters. The work carried out in 1873 cost £4,000.