Coventry Canal 6: Polesworth
An old house, and old mine and an old priory - all along the Coventry Canal at Polesworth
Music: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, by Debussy, played by the Natalia Ensemble at musopen.org
Travel Guide Polesworth Warwickshire UK Pros And Cons Review
Travel Guide Polesworth Warwickshire UK Pro's And Con's Review
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Pro's
* A few attractions to visit in the daytime
* Some enteriment at night with a range of pubs
* Some shops to choose from
* Lot's of different public transport
* A some hotel's to choose from
* The Promanard is flat to walk on
Con's
* It can get busy
* It can be hilly,so not the best place for people with walking difficulties.
* Not a lot of attractions
Things To Do
* Poleswoth Memorial Hall
* Pooley Country Park Just Outside Of Polesworth
* Gold Leaf: Buried Sunlight Monument
* Hoo Hill Obelisk Monument
* Polesworth Abby
* Alvecote Wood
* Polesworth Pooley Hall Colliery War Memorial
* Polesworth Leisure Centre
* Polesworth Village Park
Places Eat
* The Royal Oak
* The Spread Eagle
* The Gamecock Inn
* Licensed to Grill
* Indigo Lounge
Accommodation
No Accommodation in Polesworth village nearest Town Tamworth Hotel the premier Inn South is 2.2 miles away from Polesworth.
Hotel Booking Sites
* LateRooms.com
* Expedia.co.uk
* Booking.com
* Hotels.com
* TripAdvisor
* Opodo
* ebookers.com
Weather
The weather in the UK can vary from day to day. Warmer and hotter months are between April to September. Colder months with snow,sleet and rain are between October and March. You can get some humidity and pollen is highest, between June and August for hayfever suffers. You can also get rain in between, April and September.
Currency
Britain’s currency is the pound sterling (£), which is divided into 100 pence (p).
Scotland has its own pound sterling notes. These represent the same value as an English note and can be used elsewhere in Britain. The Scottish £1 note is not accepted outside Scotland.
There are lots of bureaux de change in Britain – often located inside:
• banks
• travel agents
• Post Offices
• airports
• major train stations.
It's worth shopping around to get the best deal and remember to ask how much commission is charged.
Britain’s currency is the pound sterling (£), which is divided into 100 pence (p).
Scotland has its own pound sterling notes. These represent the same value as an English note and can be used elsewhere in Britain. The Scottish £1 note is not accepted outside Scotland.
There are lots of bureaux de change in Britain – often located inside:
• banks
• travel agents
• Post Offices
• airports
• major train stations.
It's worth shopping around to get the best deal and remember to ask how much commission is charged.
Time Difference
During the winter months, Britain is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time and 10 hours behind Sydney. Western standard time is five hours behind.
From late March until late October, the clocks go forward one hour to British Summer Time (BST).
To check the correct time, contact the Speaking Clock service by dialling 123.
Weight And Measurements
Britain is officially metric, in line with the rest of Europe. However, imperial measures are still in use, especially for road distances, which are measured in miles. Imperial pints and gallons are 20 per cent larger than US measures.
Imperial to Metric
1 inch = 2.5 centimetres
1 foot = 30 centimetres
1 mile = 1.6 kilometres
1 ounce = 28 grams
1 pound = 454 grams
1 pint = 0.6 litres
1 gallon = 4.6 litres
Metric to Imperial
1 millimetre = 0.04 inch
1 centimetre = 0.4 inch
1 metre = 3 feet 3 inches
1 kilometre = 0.6 mile
1 gram = 0.04 ounce
1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds
Passport And Visas Requirements To Enter The UK
Please note: Following the recent referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union (EU), there are currently no changes in the way people travel to Britain. The following guidelines still apply:
If you're planning an adventure to the UK, depending on your nationality and your reason for visiting, you may need to organise a visa.
If you're an American, Canadian or Australian tourist, you'll be able to travel visa-free throughout the UK, providing you have a valid passport and your reason for visiting meets the immigration rules (link is external).
Citizens from some South American and Caribbean countries as well as Japan are also able to travel visa-free around the UK.
European Union citizens, non-EU member states of the EEA (Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland), Switzerland, and members of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) do not need a visa to enter the UK.
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Alvecote Priory Tamworth Staffordshire
Alvecote Priory is admired by all those visiting and currently living in Tamworth Staffordshire. Even if you know the area well we are here to help you and can offer advice to help you make the right decision. Simply visit our website.
Alvecote Priory (blasphemy. A holy place and I find weird dolls)
This has a checkerd history the founder of this priory actually murdered his wife and built it for penance.
Alvecote Priory is a ruined Benedictine Priory in Alvecote, Warwickshire, England. The site has been scheduled as an ancient monument.[1] Now very little remains of the priory, most of the walls have been eroded but a fairly high wall remains on one side. The main entrance arch is the most impressive feature, still standing at around 20 feet (6.1 m) high. The attached dovecote also survives, however both the ruined priory and dovecot are on the Heritage at Risk Register due to vandalism and water damage.
It was founded 1159 by William Burdett as a dependency of Great Malvern Priory.[3] After returning from a crusade, Burdett accused his wife of being unfaithful and stabbed her, and as penance founded the monastery.[4] Little is known of the history of this small priory, which was a dependency of Great Malvern Priory.[5] We only know the names of five of its priors. The first prior of whom any record survives was William de Wikwane who resigned in 1282. The last priors of this small house occurred in rapid succession. William Sutton was recorded as prior in 1535 but by the following year he had been succeeded by William Umberleye. It was probably he who finally surrendered the house to the King's commissioners when the mother house of Great Malvern was finally dissolved in 1540.[citation needed]
Dugdale stated that the tomb of the founder was located in an arch of the wall on the north side of the church and was covered by “a plain free stone curiously embossed with the sculpture of a large cross”. The priory was not richly endowed and the taxation of 1291 gave its property a value of £7 9s 2d. After two centuries the priory buildings were in poor repair and the monks gained the favour of Edward III. Protection was granted to the monks and their attorneys to collect alms in churches for the restoration of the church and cloister. The priory was suppress in 1543 and the priory and its lands were granted to Chancellor Audley. In June it was alienated to Joan Robynson, the widow of the mercer George Robynson of London. The priory remains are now included in Pooley Country Park.
The priory house (ruin in 1965) was built from the stone of the old Benedictine chapel.
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4K. THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST EDITHS AT MONKS KIRBY. WARWICKSHIRE. (Revisited in 2018).
4K. THE MONKS KIRBY ROMAN CATHOLIC BURIAL GROUND WITH THE VANDALISED DENBIGH CHAPEL OF REMEMBRANCE. (Revisited in 2018).
Monks Kirby is dominated by the priory church of St Edith, a site of Christian worship since at least the 10th century AD.
The first church at the site is said to have been founded in 917 by Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great and the good soils, strategic location (near the meeting point of the Fosse Way and Watling Street) and size of the parish suggest it was the dominant village in this part of Warwickshire before the Norman Conquest. In the tenth century, the village was on the frontier between the Viking controlled Danelaw and Anglo-Saxon Mercia. Kirby is a Norse place name roughly meaning church town but the village is just on the west (Anglo-Saxon) side of Watling Street, (The A5) which was the formal frontier.
After the Norman Conquest, the land around Monks Kirby came into the ownership of Geoffrey de la Guerche, a Breton knight who married Aelgifu, daughter of Leofwin of Newnham, the last Saxon lord. Geoffrey rebuilt the church and gave it as a priory to the Benedictine Abbey of St Nicolas in Anjou in France, naming it in honour of the Virgin Mary and St Denis. Unusually, the text of the founding Charter for the Priory survives: The dedication took place on 1 July 1077 and the Charter tells us the names of the first monks – Geoffrey, Ranulf, Stephen, Maurice, Roger and Herman.
In 1266 Henry III granted the monks a fair at Midsummer and a weekly market. The church was substantially rebuilt in around 1380 and in 1415 Henry V transferred the priory to the Carthusians of the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire. The 100 years war with France also caused the dedication of the church to be changed to St Edith of Polesworth, a Warwickshire Saint (the connection with St Denis was revived in the 19th century for the chapel of St Denys, built in the neighbouring village of Pailton). The church was again altered in the late fifteenth century, and an octagonal spire added: this blew down on Christmas night, 1722.
In the reformation, King Henry VIII confiscated the assets of the priory, granting the manor of Monks Kirby to the Bishop of Ipswich,and the rectory and the advowson of the vicarage to his (the King's) foundation of Trinity College Cambridge in December 1546. The manor then changed hands several times over the following eighty years until the powerful Buckingham family passed to it to the Feildings who had been lords of neighbouring Newnham Paddox since the fifteenth century.
The Feilding family (elevated to the aristocracy as Earls of Denbigh) owned most of the village and the land around it until the mid-twentieth century. Trinity College retains the benefice and continues to be involved in the church's affairs today but divested itself of substantial landholdings around Monks Kirby following the Second World War.
Vandalism, at the Monks Kirby Roman Catholic Burial Ground and Denbigh Memorial Chapel nearby.
Earlier attacks include graves being kicked over, graffiti and top stones being stolen. The chapel has previously had its windows smashed, lead stolen from the roof and the gates damaged while dozens of names have been scratched on the outside wall.
In one sick incident a pig's liver was left on the steps and blood was spattered on the door. Lord Denbigh, aged 37, said the vandals had gone too far in destroying the altar. He said: It makes me feel incredibly angry. My grandparents are buried at the back of the chapel and it's still very much a working graveyard.
I just wonder at the mentality of the people who can do something like this. But Lord Denbigh said ghost hunters are not as much of a problem as the young people who hang around the cemetery in the evenings. He regularly catches youths there and asks them to move on, having photographed registration numbers of cars parked outside to hand over to police. He has also found evidence of drug taking in the cemetery. There's only so much the police can do especially on Friday and Saturday nights when the damage seems to happen, he said.
His mother Lady Denbigh said it was very upsetting to see the altar smashed to pieces.
Note: This video was shot using several cameras in the 4K format, and then edited in Corel Video Studio 10. The audio was recorded on a Zoom H2n, including Back at base voice overs, and worked on in Audacity which is a free to download & free to use program.
The core content contained in the above combined articles, was originally written by several A.N. Others + myself, then combined. It was then all re-formatted, re-edited, with the spelling & grammar corrected, then added to where pertinent, before being updated by me, myself, and I, to suit this subject matter more exclusively.
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DC Fontana It Don't Worry Me
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Promotional video for the song 'It Don't Worry Me', taken from the 'Meshkalina EP' by DC FONTANA & released as a CD & mp3 downloads via DCTone Records & as a 7 vinyl record by Heavy Soul Records in April 2011.
Available to buy from dcfontana.com or downloadable from all the usual outlets inc. I Tunes.
The title track of the EP, 'Meshkalina', also has a promotional film:
The film was shot on location among the ruins of the Benedictine Alvecote Priory in Warwickshire by Andy Codling and features the group along with members of the Silhill Morris dance team.
The song was written by producer Donald Ross Skinner & Paul Kennedy & it was recorded at the Elephant House Studios in Moseley, Birmingham, England.
Long time Julian Cope producer & guitarist, Skinner produced the tune and the EP which follows the critically-acclaimed debut album 'Six Against Eight.'
The 'Meshkalina EP' also features an Afro Dub mix of the title track, a French reworking of the group's anthemic instrumental, 'La Contessa' & a funky dance-floor detonating rremix of 'La Contessa' by Lack Of Afro.
The track was engineered & mixed by G. Corp (Brian Nordhoff & Rob Cimarosti).
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Priory Park from a DJI Phantom 2
DJI Phantom 2 flight over Priory Park Karting circuit near Polesworth, Tamworth.
Americana Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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