Bretford

The two roads converge temporarily at Bretford, where they cross the River Avon on a five-arched, stone bridge just south of the village.

[2] The original Roman line of the Fosse Way was diverted to the west in the Middle Ages to its present crossing point.

[3] In the Middle Ages Bretford was considerably more important than it is now; it was founded as a planned market town in 1227 by the Lord of the Manor, John de Verdon.

The hamlet now consists of around twenty houses, a pub called the Queen's Head, a farm, a small village hall, and the bridge across the Avon.

[4] During the Second World War a lighting decoy site was established around 1km north-west of Bretford, designed to trick German bombers into dropping their bombs harmlessly onto fields at the wrong location, instead of on their intended target of nearby Coventry.