History lesson

Doris the storm wasn't going to stop a chihuahua on a mission, so we ventured back to yesterday's site and decided as was asked to give you a little history of the area that we live.

Budbrooke barracks was established on a site about 1/2 a mile from this church, the military connections of the area are retained in some of the road names around here, Caen close, Normandy Close and The Warwicks all recall the part that the regiment played in the liberation of France during WW 2.
Arras Boulevard commemorates the Battle of Arras during WW1.

In the late 1960s the barrack site was redeveloped into the 20th century village of Hampton Magna.

In the 1790s the Birmingham and Warwick canal was constructed which is now part of the Birmingham main line of the Grand Union Canal, this passes through Budbrooke and the Hatton flight of 21 locks that lift the canal up and out of the Avon valley.

In 1350 the village suffered from the Black Death and became a ghost town most of the village including the vicarage and the Manor House crumbled.
The track which now passes under the railway arch known as Kytes Bridge was the most likely route for the corpses being taken from the village to Dead Field on Hatton Hill. Of the original village only the church remains.

So now you know as much as me about an area that we walk.

Here is Roo at the said church yard with one of our fallen heroes.