Activities
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Hill Close Gardens Trust, Warwick
Any time is a good time to visit Hill Close Gardens as there is so much to see throughout the year in these 16 hedged town gardens situated between the town centre and Warwick Racecourse. It is an opportunity to experience what was a very common horticultural feature in Victorian times, when many towns had similar detached gardens on their boundaries.
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Kenilworth Castle, Kenilworth
Kenilworth Castle is located in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England. Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by the architectural historian Anthony Emery as "the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship".Read more
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Middleton Hall & Gardens, Warwickshire, England
The manor house takes you back to medieval England, built for the de Freville family before it was passed to the Willoughby family in 1418. It has an 18th-century walled garden and neighbouring RSPB nature reserve.
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Midland Air Museum, Coventry
The museum offers a unique aeronautical collection, which was started in 1967 by the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society.
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Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Nuneaton
The museum tells the history of the surrounding area, including the life of novelist George Eliot, and displays a unique collection of artwork.
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Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth
Nearby is the village of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. The Abbey itself is a Grade I listed building. In 1154 Henry II granted land in the Forest of Arden to a group of Cistercians from Staffordshire. There are various traces remaining of the original Abbey buildings, most notably the 14th-century Gatehouse.Read more
