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Warwick is the red-letter county village of Warwickshire in England and has a people of 25,434 (2001 tally). The township lies upon the rivulet Avon, Warwickshire/waterway Avon.
The town is most acclaimed for the impressive Warwick Castle which attracts great numbers of tourists from around the world. The town hub is in addition known for the benefit of its consequential architecture, with an increment of contains a mixture of Tudor elegance/Tudor and 17th century/17th-century buildings.
Warwick School is a communal school (England)/community school which claims approaching be the third-oldest extant school (well-)liked England. The real date of its organization is unidentified; although 914 has been quoted fashionable some cases, the State school celebrated its millennium present-day the 1990s and it has as well honoured crowned head Edward the Confessor (c.1004-1066) as its founder. The school rattled to its current location in 1879.
The University of Warwick is named after the select of Warwickshire, rather than the city, and is in particular(s) some miles away in excess of the fringes of Coventry.
Warwick is to boot known pro Warwick Racecourse, near the west passage of the medieval burgh.
Account
According to practice, Warwick was founded on the banks of the River Avon in the year 914 AD, when Ethelfleda, cherish of Mercia king Edward the Elder built defences contrary (to) Denmark/Danish (Viking) invaders; these were for be the basis of Warwick Castle. The name 'Warwick' means "dwellings.
Up to the minute 1016 the Danes invaded Mercia with the addition of burned drop off (to sleep) much of Warwick, unified the nunnery (which stood on the site of the closest day St Nicholas cathedral).
Its fortifications led Warwick to mature into an leading administrative core within the Mercian empire. a la mode the prehistoric 11th centuryAnglo-Saxon England was divided into administrative areas known as shires, added to the state administered from Warwick became known as Warwickshire . sooner than the duration of Domesday Book, Warwick was a royal city.
Fashionable medieval times, Warwick remained under the control of various count of Warwick/Earls of Warwick, mostly of the Beauchamp family, increased by became a walled township. Today the only lees of the town walls are the east with the addition of west gatehouses. The familiarize gatehouse in this day and age serves as part of the Kings High day-school, a develop institution shortly before Warwick boarding-school. Warwick was not incorporated as a town earlier 1546.
Latest 1694 a great blaze destroyed regularly of the town, with an increment of as a result summit of the buildings modern the community centre are of 17th and 18th century foundation, although a number of older medieval buildings pull through, especially raise the edges of the town nucleus.
The fire burnt down uttermost of the medieval order of St Mary; the Beauchamp chapel, however, survived, having been built between 1443 with the addition of 1464 according to the wishes of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (who had died in Rouen in 1439). A full extent reclining fuzz gilt semblance of the Earl Newspeak upon his Purbeck statuette tomb - a neat piece of medieval metalwork cast up to the minute 1459.
Transport
Warwick is near the M40 alley(way) and the A46 alley(way)/A46 trunk boulevard. The hamlet also has good railway/rail links, with bid services shortly before London, Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon provided close to Chiltern Railways from the original train station/station new the community and moreover from Warwick Parkway a new out-of-town station opened in 2000. The additional rail practitioner serving Warwick is dominant Trains (so as to approach or near Birmingham increased by Stratford). The Grand confederating Canal together with the stream Avon, Warwickshire/tributary Avon in addition pass throughout the burgh.
Direction
Citizenry growth has led near Warwick comely joined for its big neighbouring township Leamington resource with which it forms a elfin conurbation. Both towns are now administered as fragment of the Warwick (division)/Warwick District, which has its headquarters up to the minute Leamington, even though each retains a codify town conclave. Warwickshire County congress remains based in Warwick itself.
Associations
J. R. R. Tolkien seems approaching have been much not total or whole by Warwick (where he was wedding) and next to its Mercian connections: Lynn Forest-Hill, snazzy an poetry in the Times cultivated Supplement (TLS 8 July 2005 pp 12-13) argues cogently that two distinguished settlements all the rage Tolkien's toil were modelled on Warwick - Edoras closely in front the antiquated town, increased by Minas Tirith more dreamily on the Norman; together with that aspects of the plot of the sovereign of the Rings are paralleled in the amour known as Guy of Warwick.
Warwick increased by its prominent buildings procure featured all the rage a and slew(s) or slue(s) of video (receiver) series, embracing the BBC's drama retinue Dangerfield, the period dramas Pride added to Prejudice and Tom Jones and Granada Television's lady-love Flanders
Landmarks
* Warwick Castle
* peer Leycester nursing home
* Lord Leycester hotel
* The Warwickshire Museum
* Warwick township Council
* A aggregation of photos of Warwick
* Warwick School
* Warwickshire net directory
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