The best running trails around Wasperton

Great, just great. Awesome food, dedicated off road bike parking, e-bike charging.

Great food and dedicated spaces for bike off the Main Street. Also has charger for e-bikes.

Restaurant and Hotel . https://www.barasetbarn.co.uk/

History of Oakley Wood There has been woodland here since way back in the 16th Century but much of it was replanted with Scots pine. There are now large areas of conifer with some broadleaf trees and scrubland mixed in. Warwickshire Wildlife Trust have longer term plans to restore the wood back to native broadleaf trees.

Always moving to read the listings of those who gave their lives so that others could enjoy freedom

Four-stepped octagonal base surmounted by an octagonal sectioned plinth, octagonal sectioned shaft & Latin cross. Incised inscriptions and names on side faces of plinth. In relief, are a Sword of Sacrifice on front face of shaft, interlinked with a wreath at intersection of arms of cross. Further incised inscription on face of lower step. Inscription Plinth face 1 : BY THE LONG ROAD / THEY TROD WITH SO / MUCH FAITH AND / WITH SUCH DEVOTED / & SELF SACRIFICING / BRAVERY WE HAVE / ARRIVED AT VICTORY / AND TODAY THEY / HAVE THEIR REWARD / EARL HAIG / 1914 - 1919 Plinth faces 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7 (22 NAMES) Plinth face 8 : ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGT / (5 NAMES) Plinth face 5 : 1939 - 1945 / (12 NAMES) Lower step face : ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS / OF ALVESTON/ IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL

There has been a church in Alveston for over a thousand years; the boundary of the parish was set in the year 983AD. The Saxon community of the overlord 'Aenwulf' was situated close to the river where there was a ford across the Avon, the chancel of the Old Church still remains down Mill Lane and is surrounded by old graves. It is still used on Thursday mornings from Easter until the end of British Summer Time. In 1837 a new young Queen came to the throne inaugurating a new era, the well to do residents of the ‘Alveston Villas’ looked at their little old Church and decided they needed something more fitting in which to worship. They consulted Leamington architect William Walker who felt that a new Church on a new site would be best. Land was obtained and a simple Church with Tower and apsaidal East End was designed and built. On 16th May, 1839, the Lord Bishop of Worcester came to consecrate the new Church. In 1876 new Vicar, William Barnard, added the chancel, Lady Chapel and Vestry to the East End, no doubt to accommodate a ‘robed’ choir, as was then the fashion. This work, the East window and some of the other stained glass, were all designed by local stained glass artist turned Architect, Frederick Preedy. Barnards’ successor, Peter Llewellyn, added further to the Church in the early years of the 20th Century with the impressive Choir Screen with Crucifix and Rood figures of Mary and John the Divine, and the elaborately stencilled paintwork of the chancel roof which used also to cover the walls of the chancel.

The war memorial in the village of Barford is set into the wall surrounding the churchyard of St Peter’s church, at the corner of Church Street and Church Lane. Five stone plaques are set into the wall; the three central ones commemorate World War I and two smaller ones either side of this, World War II. This section of the wall is heightened and a stone cross on a triple plinth rises from the top of the wall above the plaques. The dedication on the World War I plaque reads IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY 1914 – 1919 The names of the fallen are listed below this: GEORGE HIRONS JOHN SMITH M.M. REUBEN BARNBROOK ARTHUR HOPKINS H. DENNIS SMITH-RYLAND Capt. HARRY WOODWARD FRANCIS H. FREEMAN Wm HENRY REEVE FRANCIS H. TALBOT ALBERT E. WINSTON L-C FREDERICK PILKINGTON WILLIAM CARTER Cpl FREDERICK BARTLETT C WESLEY HUNT FRANK A. BAKER L-C MARY M. GRAHAM and are followed by the words THEY POSSESS THE REWARD OF THEIR VALOUR WITH GOD IN HEAVEN AND LEAVE TO THE WORLD THE RICH INHERITANCE OF THEIR MEMORY The two World War II memorial plaques have the dates 1939 – 1945 and record names of the fallen. MAURICE S BARKER Major LAURENCE E W BYAM Mid JOHN FINCH RICHARD H HADLEY WILLIAM PUMFREY AUBREY A UPSTONE Hon GUSTAVUS L HAMILTON-RUSSELL Lt The original (World War I) memorial, was first unveiled on Sunday 18th September 1921. By 2003 the old bricks had deteriorated beyond repair and the stone plaques were becoming illegible due to spalling which necessitated significant restoration work. The restored memorial was rededicated prior to the Remembrance Day service on Sunday 9th November 2003.