[4] The "Grange" of Horeston was so-called as being a managed monastic farming estate, which in medieval times (by 1291)[1] was one of the manorial possessions of the Priory of Benedictine nuns at Nuneaton.
[7] Dr. Berenice Kerr shows that it was one of the five larger manors, together with Eaton, Hodnell, Ratby and Wibtoft, engaged in production of wheat and other arable crops supplied to Nuneaton Priory in the late 1340s, and was managed by lay brothers together with their estate at Burton.
[8] That priory, one of the three English cells subordinate to the Abbey of Fontevrault in the County of Anjou, France, was originally founded at Kintbury in Berkshire, by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Gervase Paganell, c. 1153-55, but was removed to Nuneaton in c.
[9] Constable sold the grange to Jasper Fisher, who bequeathed it to his heirs Katherine Norwood and Anne Wolrich, his cousins.
"[16][17] Trial excavations in the area around the medieval grange, made in 1994,[15] show that quantities of ash dumped from steam engines overlie some of the more ancient earthworks.
The northern section (off Hinckley Road, based around Tiverton Drive and Tavistock Way) comprises 12 streets named after places in Devon.
The southern section (off Eastboro Way, based around the horseshoe formed by Camborne Drive) comprises 24 streets named after places in Cornwall.
Nearby, there are number of other pubs, such as The Harvester (on the corner of St Nicolas Park Drive and Hinckley Road) and The Longshoot Hotel (at the junction of Watling Street and The Long Shoot).