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Completed in 1836, Studley Castle is a Grade II listed building set in 28 acres of countryside in Warwickshire. Francis Lyttleton Holyoake, high sheriff of Warwickshire, commissioned knowned theatre architect Samuel Beazley to design the castle in Gothic Revival style.

Nice building worth checking out on the way

Cute little church but couldn't go in

Studley Castle is a Grade II* listed building set in 28 acres of countryside in Warwickshire. The vision of Francis Lyttleton Holyoake, high sheriff of Warwickshire, it was completed in 1836. He had a £120,000 budget - an eye-watering £14.5m today - and enlisted Samuel Beazley, a renowned theatre architect, to design a castle in Gothic Revival style. For the next 70 years, Studley Castle served as an extraordinary family home. Ultimately, though, such decadent living became a price too high to pay and Francis was declared bankrupt. In 1903, Lady Warwick purchased the building and transformed it into the Studley Agricultural College for Women to provide horticultural training to daughters of the gentry. Requisitioned by the government, it became a training camp for the Women’s Land Army during the First and Second World Wars and remained a women’s-only college for the next 60 or so years. In 1969, the building gained its Grade II* listing, and after a time as offices and a conference centre, in 2006 it was converted again, this time into a country house hotel.

Part of the Henley Forest Marathon route. Good paths well marked. Off road shoes needed.

Beautiful SSSI...great access...full of bluebells

This delightful church was closed and declared redundant in 1972 and in 1976 the diocese applied for demolition. The Friends of Friendless Churches and the Ancient Monuments Society took an interest in conserving it. In 1980 it was bought by the Ancient Monuments Society. It is the only church to have been owned by the society. For almost 30 years the church has been used by thr highly talented artist, Nicholas Jones as his studio.

While walking down the Studley high street look out for the old Police Station...now converted into housing but you can still see the Police Station carved into the stone work above the door.