Merrie Ole Englande series: #3

This week’s theme is ‘maps’. I love maps! I found this wonderful 1603 Warwickshire, England map in a blog and had to share it with you. This map is relevant to the previous posts on the Gunpowder Treason Plot (Notice Coughton Court is marked and this is where Thomas BATE went after he dropped off Robert CATESBY at Holbeche House.) It’s also relevant to posts that will be made throughout the month of February. I’ve marked a few spots that will be relevant in future posts this month. Read up on them. It will make my posts more meaningful.

Links You Could Look At Before Next Week

Mary ARDEN SHAKESPEARE’s property in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. OurWarwickshire.org has at least 3 nice photos of Mary ARDEN SHAKESPEARE’s home. Wilmcote is where our initial de ARDEN’s lived – Margeret, her dad Robert, and his dad Thomas. Wilmcote is near Stratford-Upon-Avon where SHAKESPEARE grew up.

No need to read extensively at the next link because I will be summarizing much of it in a post later month. However, it has excellent photographs of the Park Hall property that will come up in a post in February. It also has a few maps you can look at that will be relevant. Landed Families blog. Fun fact: According to Wikipedia, the Park Hall manor house was said to be haunted and was demolished in the 1970’s to make way for the M6 motorway…but “[r]emnants of the hall, farm house and adjacent buildings, orchard and pond are still visible at the ‘Park Hall Wildlife Reserve managed by the Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust.’ The name lives on in ‘Park Hall School’, which is on the other side of the road…”. 

Learn about Peddimore Hall that once belonged to the de ARDEN family. Then take a look at it’s current state at Daily Mail. One more worthwhile Peddimore Hall site that doesn’t take much time to look at: Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group website. This is a different property than Pedmore Hall which the de ARDEN’s also owned. You can learn about Pedmore Hall here.

The next website has information about The Chestnuts, Water Orton, Warwickshire, England – a possible medieval manor. The de ARDEN family once owned a manor at Water-Orton. OurWarwickshire.org

Castle Bromwich is also a location you can learn more about. Look at Wikipedia first. Two interesting Castle Bromwich sites: Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens site, Visit Birmingham site, and Solihull site.

Enjoy learning about old England as it relates to our family. I know I’m enjoying it. If you aren’t, no worries. We’ll be back in America in March.

Until next time,

Lisa @ Days of Our Lives