Hide
Wroxhall
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
"WROXHALL, a parish in the Snitterfield division of Barlichway hundred, county Warwick, 6 miles N.W. of Warwick, and 4 from Kenilworth railway station. The village is situated near the Birmingham canal. The surface is undulating, and the soil chiefly a strong clay. The principal residence is Wroxhall Abbey, originally built by Robert Burgoyne, to whom the demesne was granted by Henry VIII. at the dissolution of the monasteries, and in 1713 was purchased by Sir Christopher Wren from the family of Burgoyne, and is now the seat of Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Hide
- The transcription of the section for Wroxhall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wroxhall to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP225714 (Lat/Lon: 52.340059, -1.671724), Wroxhall which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.