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Best breakfast in Warwickshire

Info points on interesting features, including civil war battle display in the church

At the foot of Edge hill. Nice little town.

Wellesbourne Airfield café. Open every day 9:00 - 17:00. coffee, cake and some old aeroplanes!

National Trust property with expansive grounds and deer park.

Great day out good for a picnic

The parish church of the HOLY CROSS stands south of the village to the west of the road. It is a small building consisting of a chancel with a north vestry, nave with a north porch and a west tower. The church in the main dates from the 13th century, but it is possible that the nave, from its proportions and thick walls (over 3 ft.), is of the 12th century. No details of this date remain, but reset in the north wall of the tower is the head of a small 12th-century window which may have been moved from the west wall of the nave. (fn. 60) Repeated later repairs and alterations have done away with the 13th-century windows and doorways. Most of the windows are of the 15th century or later, and those in the nave have lost their original mullions and tracery. The upper part of the tower is of 19th-century brickwork and the north porch was added at the end of that century. There have been several modern restorations, including one of 1886. The chancel (about 25 ft. by 15 ft.) has an east window of three cinquefoiled lights and tracery in a two-centred head. The jambs and splays are of the 14th century, the remainder modern. On either side of the head outside is a reset corbel carved with a human head and flat abacus, probably from the roof. The wall is of coursed rough ashlarperhaps 18th-century refacingon rough footings. At the angles are 15thcentury diagonal buttresses set against the east wall instead of symmetrically on the angles; these have chamfered plinths. The north wall is now unpierced except for the modern doorway to the vestry, but externally can be seen a walled-up window. There is no visible trace of it inside. The wall has rough footings, above which are three courses of yellow ashlar, the remainder being of small coursed white stone rubble. In the south wall are two windows: the eastern is a single light, 19 in. wide with a square head: it is probably of the 14th century but altered. The other is a 15th-century wide window of three four-centred lights under a square head, set low in the wall. The masonry of the wall is mostly small grey-white rubble, except east of the first window, where it is of ashlar like that of the east wall, and some large stones west of and above the window. The wall is divided into three bays by two modern buttresses, but next east of the western was an earlier buttress of which the chamfered plinth still remains in place, and the wall is patched with a vertical strip of ashlar stones. The purlined roof is of the late 18th century and has trusses of two collarbeams with a king-post between them. It was exposed in 1886 by the removal of the ceiling below it. The acutely pointed chancel arch is of two chamfered orders and was rebuilt in 1886. The responds, of similar section, have 13th-century moulded capitals and bases. The nave (41 ft. by 21 ft.) has two windows near the extreme ends of the north wall, both late-14thcentury insertions with chamfered and splayed jambs inside and out and two-centred heads. They were of two lights but have lost their mullions and tracery. The north doorway near the western window is of the same period; it has jambs and pointed head of two moulded orders separated by a three-quarter hollow. It has been repaired with cement and has no hood-mould. The plastered semicircular rear-arch is possibly earlier. In it is an ancient nail-studded oak-battened door hung with strap-hinges with fleur-de-lis ends and having an oak lock. In the south wall are three windows: the middle is modern, in place of the former south doorway of which some jambstones remain in place below the window. The eastern window, 3 ft. wide, has 15th-century moulded jambs and a two-centred head with a hood-mould: it has lost its mullion. The western, 4 ft. wide and taller, is also gutted; the jambs are nearly similar but later and it has no hood-mould. The apex touches the eaves-course. It is said to have been heightened when a gallery was erected.  The thick walls are of a mixture of large squared stones and small roughly coursed rubble, and have chamfered plinths and modern brick eaves-courses. At the east angles are diagonal buttresses of ashlar, the northern 15th-century, the southern modern. The south wall is divided into four bays by three 13thcentury shallow buttresses of ashlar; on the western is a scratched sundial. The buttress at the west angle is deeper and probably later, but it has a random date 1717. The north wall has similar buttresses but that east of the porch has been completely removed. The porch is of modern timber-framing, with open sides. Beneath the south-east window is a 13th-century trefoiled recess for a piscina, now without a basin. The roof, like the chancel roof, is modern. The west tower (about 7 ft. square internally) is of two stages; the lower is of large and small white stone rubble work of the 13th century. Reset about half-way up on the north side is the round head of a tiny 12thcentury windowabout 6 in. widein dark brown stone: it is faced with concentric rings of small round mouldings. At the west angles are 19th-century brick buttresses. The archway to the nave is of the full width of the tower: it has a two-centred head of two chamfered orders towards the nave, the outer continued from the responds and the inner carried at the springing-level on long tapering corbels. On the tower side the head is of three orders, the outer two dying on the side-walls. The west window has late-15th-century moulded jambs and a four-centred head; it is of two lights and modern tracery. The upper stage is of 19th-century brickwork and has pointed windows to the bellchamber. It replaces a timber-framed weather-boarded structure. The communion-table is of the normal late-16thcentury type with turned and carved bulbous legs. The pulpit in the north-east corner of the nave has, in its three west sides, 17th-century panels with incised diamond-pattern ornament. The font is modern. In the nave is a long, narrow iron-bound chest, 6 ft. long by 14 in. wide by 17 in. high, made of plain thick oak battens. The lid has four plain strap-hinges. It has one hasp held by a peculiarly heavy padlock to the staplering and there are two other staple-rings. It has no distinctive workmanship or ornament by which it can be dated but may be medieval. On the south wall of the chancel is a monument of alabaster and marble to Richard Murden, 30 October 1635, and Mary (Woodward) his wife. It has their kneeling effigies, the man in armour facing westwards opposite his wife with a prie-dieu between them, in a double elliptically arched recess which is flanked by pilasters and cherubs holding a skull and hour-glass. The entablature has a carved frieze and a broken pediment with an angel holding a shield and lozenge of arms. The inscription is on a panelled apron. On the wall west of the monument is a small dark marble tablet in an alabaster frame with fleur-de-lis ornament at the angles. It is to Elizabeth, infant daughter of Stephen Harvey of Milton Malsor, and Mary (Murden) his wife, 3 July 1623. On the ledge of a north window is a loose humanfaced corbel. There are three bells, two of 1616, and the tenor by Newcombe of Leicester 1609. The communion plate includes a worn Elizabethan cup, with renewed stem, and its paten cover.

Spanish cafe with nice quiet garden. Didn't try the food but made a lovely coffee stop!

great cyclist friendly cafe, bike rack, cakes, coffee, what else do you need?

Well-placed, cheap café. Popular with motorcyclists and (as you might expect) pilots.

The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style. Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result. From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy. In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote. The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850). Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from whose extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy. From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.