Maxstoke

The Priory was established by Sir William de Clinton in 1331 when he endowed a College of Priests consisting of five chaplains and a warden.

It was built adjacent to an earlier moated farmstead, south of his castle towards Packington village.

On the ends of the drip mouldings over the central window are two busts, one of a knight with his visor down and another of a monk.

In the fields around the priory can be seen traces of medieval earthworks for fish farming and water control.

Additions were made by Humphrey Stafford who acquired it in 1437 by exchanging it for other manors in Northamptonshire.

On 19 August 1918 a Royal Air Force (RAF) Handley Page O/400 from No.

14 Aircraft Acceptance Park RAF took off from Castle Bromwich Aerodrome on a test flight.

The other crew members were air mechanics Charles William Offord, J.