The best walks and hikes around Shilton and Barnacle CP

beautiful place to ride by, especially at sunrise or sunset. the greyhound pub is on the junction for a half time stop as well. can either head to Bedworth/nuneaton, back into Coventry Central or round to Longford.

Church. C13 chancel; C14 north arcade. Nave, aisle and tower and restoration1856 by George Gilbert Scott. Chancel of coursed squared red sandstone with some ashlar patching. Nave of regular coursed grey sandstone; aisle and tower of ashlar. Old plain-tile roofs have pierced terracotta ridge cresting. Chancel has C19 coped gable parapet with gablet kneelers and cross finial. Nave has moulded cornice and parapet, and west gable parapet. Chancel, nave, north aisle, west porch tower. 2-bay chancel, 4-bay nave. Diagonal buttresses of 2 offsets throughout. Chancel has splay plinth. C19 east window of 3 stepped trefoiled lancets in chamfered arch with hood mould and foliage stops. Chamfered south doorway has hood mould and C19 plank door with decorative ironwork. Paired C19 trefoiled lancets to east, and western lancet. North side has 2-light chamfered mullioned eastern window and trefoiled western lancet. Nave, aisle and tower have splayed and moulded plinths. Nave has south buttress between eastern 2 bays. 2-light windows have geometrical tracery. Aisle has north buttress. 3-light east window has panel tracery. North-east corner has octagonal stone stack. North side has two straight-headed windows of 3 trefoiled lights. Similar 2-light west window. Porch tower of 2 stages. Upper part of first stage is octagonal. West diagonal buttresses rise into pedestals with seated statues. Doorway of 2 moulded orders has keeled nook-shafts to outer order and double-leaf doors with decorative ironwork. Hood mould with head stops. Elaborate Decorated- style image niche above has crocketed canopy and statue. North side has shallow stair projection. South side has trefoiled lancet. Upper window of 4 mouchettes to north and south. Weathering between stages. Second stage has elaborately moulded openings with reticulated tracery, hood moulds and head stops to alternate sides. Moulded cornice has gargoyles and foliage bosses. Moulded embattled parapet with blind quatrefoils. Spire has lucarnes and finial. Interior is plastered. Chancel has elaborate stencil work of 1856. South-east window has trefoiled rere arch. Chancel and nave have queen strut roofs with windbraces; chancel has old moulded tie beam dated 1615. No chancel arch. 3-bay north arcade of 2 chamfered orders has octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals. West doorway of 3 orders, the outer 2 segmental- pointed, has double-leaf doors. North aisle has queen strut roof, partly of old timbers, with simple bosses to tie beams. Fittings appear to be all of 1856. Chancel has encaustic tiles. Traceried altar rails. Elaborate Decorated-style traceried wood chancel screen has some Gothic openwork panels above. Stalls, pews and octagonal pulpit have blind tracery. Octagonal stone font has blind tracery. Large C19 triptych painting above shows the Baptism of Prince Peada. Stained glass: east window 1851; south-east 1851; nave north-west 1846; aisle east 1865; other C19 and early C20 windows. Wall monuments in nave: south-east: Simon Adams 1801. Neoclassical, with weeping woman and urn. South wall: John Adaas 1856. Large Gothic marble monument. The inscription records that he was 'a visiting justice of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. It was his happiness to be one of the first promoters of the humane system of the treatment of the insane'.

Bedworth Hill Bridge No 13 is a place on the waterways on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley) between Marston Junction (Junction of Ashby and Coventry Canals) (1 mile and 7¼ furlongs to the north) and Hawkesbury Engine House (6¾ furlongs to the south). The nearest place in the direction of Marston Junction is Site of Navigation Inn (Now a private residence); 5¾ furlongs away. The nearest place in the direction of Hawkesbury Engine House is Bedworth Winding Hole (Site of the junction with the Newdigate Colliery Arm (disused)); a few yards away.

Bedworth Winding Hole is a place on the waterways on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley) between Marston Junction (Junction of Ashby and Coventry Canals) (1 mile and 7¼ furlongs to the north) and  Hawkesbury Engine House (6¾ furlongs to the south). The nearest place in the direction of Marston Junction is Bedworth Hill Bridge No 13 (Half a mile walk to Bedworth); a few yards away. The nearest place in the direction of Hawkesbury Engine House is Site of Hawkesbury Basin (Infilled); 2¾ furlongs away

Hawkesbury Visitor Moorings (Engine House) is a minor waterways place on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley) between Marston Junction (Junction of Ashby and Coventry Canals) (2 miles and 5¼ furlongs to the north) and Hawkesbury Engine House (¾ furlongs to the southwest). It is part of Hawkesbury Junction. The nearest place in the direction of Marston Junction is Site of Hawkesbury Basin (Infilled); 3¼ furlongs away. The nearest place in the direction of Hawkesbury Engine House is Hawkesbury Water Point (Engine House); ½ furlongs away.

Hawkesbury Junction Engine House, a pump house whose function was to maintain the water level. The engine house is still largely intact. These were built during the Imperial period and were situated at the junction of the Oxford and Coventry canals. The junction of the Coventry Canal (1768) and the Oxford Canal (1769) has several features of interest: The engine house was erected in 1821 to house the very early Newcomen engine (1725) acquired from the nearby Griff Colliery. The engine, which maintained the water level in the canals, it has since moved to Dartmouth but the brick built engine house is substantially intact. It is three storey with small round headed windows. Hawkesbury Engine House is a major waterways place on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley) between Marston Junction (Junction of Ashby and Coventry Canals) (2 miles and 6 furlongs to the north) and Hawkesbury Junction (Junction of the Coventry Canal Main Line with the Oxford Canal Northern Section.) (½ furlongs to the southwest). It is part of Hawkesbury Junction. The nearest place in the direction of Marston Junction is Hawkesbury Water Point (Engine House); ¼ furlongs away. The nearest place in the direction of Hawkesbury Junction is Hawkesbury Engine House Footbridge; a few yards away.

Hawkesbury Engine House Footbridge is a minor waterways place on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley) between Hawkesbury Engine House (a few yards to the northeast) and Hawkesbury Junction (Junction of the Coventry Canal Main Line with the Oxford Canal Northern Section.) (¼ furlongs to the southwest). It is part of Hawkesbury Junction. The nearest place in the direction of Hawkesbury Junction is Hawkesbury Junction Gauging Stop; a few yards away.

Hawkesbury Junction is a major waterways place at the junction of the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury) with the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley) and the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Main Line).   Coventry Basin (Canal Terminus) is on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Coventry to Hawkesbury), 5 miles and 4 furlongs to the southwest. Hawkesbury Engine House is on the Coventry Canal (Main Line - Hawkesbury to Fazeley), ½ furlongs to the northeast. Sutton Stop is on the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Main Line), ½ furlongs to the east. It is the centre of Hawkesbury Junction. The nearest place in the direction of Coventry Basin is Hawkesbury Services; ¼ furlongs away. The nearest place in the direction of Hawkesbury Engine House is Hawkesbury Junction Gauging Stop; ¼ furlongs away. The nearest place in the direction of Sutton Stop is Hawkesbury Junction Bridge; a few yards away.