Caldecote is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, 2 miles north of

Nuneaton Nuneaton ( ) is a market town in the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth in northern Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire and West Midlands County.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : Nuneaton's ...

and south of the A5. An ancient settlement, Caldecote is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as being in the ownership of the Bishop of Chester.

Caldecote Hall

The manor house, Caldecote Hall, was the home of Parliamentarian Colonel

William Purefoy William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charl ...

during the English Civil War and was damaged by Royalist siege by

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in 1642. In the 18th century it was owned by Nathan Wright. The Hall was rebuilt in brick in 1880, for Henry Leigh Townshend, who was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1901. In 1924, the Hall was bought by the Church of England Temperance Society, for use as a retreat. In the 1950s, it was the home of

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's School but suffered financial problems and a severe fire in 1955. In 2005 it was restored and converted to private flats.

Gallery

File:Nuneaton caldecote.jpg, River Anker File:Nuneaton caldecotehall.jpg, Caldecote Hall

Sources

Sheasby, Alan (1990) ''Skylark Fields: A Forties Childhood'' Exeter, Devon: Wheaton Publishers Ltd/Warwickshire Books, (Includes a map of Caldecote and surrounding district)

References

Villages in Warwickshire Civil parishes in Warwickshire Borough of North Warwickshire {{Warwickshire-geo-stub