Cawston is a civil parish and suburban village close to the south west of Rugby, on the A4071 (which is in turn just one mile from the M45).
[1] For hundreds of years the village was basically a hamlet and the two settlements remained separate despite Rugby's continued growth.
The house has been in the hands of several notable titled families and was also used as a convalescent home for troops from Belgium in World War I, a girls' school between 1938 and 1958, and a research and development unit for an engineering company.
The railway bridge over the A4071 has in recent years gained minor fame for the 'witty' slogans written on it.
In August 2007 construction of the Rugby Western Relief Road started just west of the village, a project which was completed in 2010.