Caldecote, Warwickshire

Caldecote is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, 2 miles north of Nuneaton and south of the A5.

An ancient settlement, Caldecote is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as being in the ownership of the Bishop of Chester.

[2] The manor house, Caldecote Hall, was the home of Parliamentarian Colonel William Purefoy during the English Civil War and was damaged by Royalist siege by Prince Rupert in 1642.

[3] The Hall was rebuilt in brick in 1880,[4] for Henry Leigh Townshend, who was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1901.

[5] Sheasby, Alan (1990) Skylark Fields: A Forties Childhood Exeter, Devon: Wheaton Publishers Ltd/Warwickshire Books, ISBN 1-871942-04-7 (Includes a map of Caldecote and surrounding district) Media related to Caldecote, Warwickshire at Wikimedia Commons