* Oxford Canal, a canal from Coventry to Oxford

Opposition from local landowners resulted in the plan being shelved, but a further plan was proposed at a meeting held in Warwick in August 1781, for a canal to run from Wednesbury through Fazeley to Atherstone, which was the end of the Coventry Canal at the time.

In 1782, they obtained an agreement from the Oxford Canal Company that they would complete the route to the River Thames at Oxford, one from the Coventry Canal that they would extend their canal from Atherstone to Fazeley, and agreed that they would complete the Coventry Canal's route from Fazeley as far as Whittington, as the Coventry Canal company could not finance the whole route.

The canal is now regarded as running from the BCN Main Line at Old Turn Junction ( near the National Indoor Arena ), Birmingham to the Coventry Canal at Fazeley Junction, just outside Tamworth.

At Drayton Bassett, an eccentric footbridge with Gothic-style towers crosses the canal, close to Drayton Manor Theme Park, after which Fazeley is reached, where the canal joins the Coventry Canal.

There is a statue of him ( leaning over his desk ) by James Walter Butler ( bronze, 18 September 1998 ) located in the canal basin by Leicester Row, Coventry, and another by Colin Melbourne ( bronze, 20 July 1990 ) in Lower Bedford Street, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, at the junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Caldon Canal, opposite Etruria Industrial Museum.

It also became a hub of the canal network, with the Coventry Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal being built through the town.

The Oxford Canal is a narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Coventry via Banbury and Rugby.

A canal boat on the canal near Brinklow on the long stretch between Coventry and Rugby, Warwickshire | Rugby.

The canal begins near Hawkesbury Village at Hawkesbury Junction, also known as Sutton Stop, where it connects with the Coventry Canal, four miles from the centre of Coventry.

The towpath of the canal, with a 5. 5-mile extension from Hawkesbury Junction to Coventry on the towpath of the Coventry Canal, forms the Oxford Canal Walk.

The Coventry Canal is a navigable narrow canal in the Midlands of England.

Some maps show the canal as a northern and a southern section, connected by a stretch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, but others show the through route all as the Coventry Canal.

The canal starts at Coventry Canal Basin.

From the canal basin, the canal meanders north through Coventry passing under many road bridges including prominent hump-back bridges under the Foleshill Road, Foleshill through Little Heath and the Longford Road, Longford.

From Marston Junction, the Coventry canal runs north-west through Nuneaton, Atherstone and Polesworth, to Tamworth.

The Coventry canal continues northwards to end at Fradley Junction where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal.

The Coventry canal was a vital trade artery for many years.

In 1868 a Michaux cycle was brought to Coventry, England by Rowley Turner, sales agent of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company ( which soon became the Coventry Machinist Company ).

Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.

Again the woollen manufacturers, in true protectionist style, claimed that this was taking away jobs from workers in Coventry.

The first chassis built by Abbey Panels of Coventry was delivered on March 16, 1963.

When she was 21, her brother Isaac married and took over the family home, so Evans and her father moved to Foleshill near Coventry.

George Eliot Road, in Foleshill, Coventry was named in her honour.

Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.

A new format for a full-size, city centre store was introduced with the opening of the Coventry ( UK ) store in December 2007 as a response to UK government restrictions blocking retail establishment outside city centres ,.

Leicester's gatehouse was built on the north side of the base court, replacing an older gatehouse to provide a fashionable entrance from the direction of Coventry.

The 2 Tone genre was named after 2 Tone Records, a Coventry, England record label that featured bands such as The Specials, Madness and The Selecter.

He was apprenticed for short periods to several medical practitioners: at 13 to his brother-in-law John Cooke in Coventry, who passed him on to Thomas Chandler, notable for his experiments using mesmerism for medical purposes.

Eight weeks later, Malory alone was charged with attacking the same woman, in Coventry.

One of the first " sister city " projects was that established between Stalingrad and England's Coventry during World War II ( as both suffered extensive devastation from aerial bombardment ).

The next major change occurred in 1844, when many of these exclaves were re-merged with their surrounding counties ( for example Coventry was re-merged with Warwickshire ).

In 1986, a location was opened in London on Coventry Street ( between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus ) followed by a second location in Earls Court near the Earl's Court tube station.

The phrase " I have seen the fnords " was famously graffitied on a railway bridge ( known locally as Anarchy Bridge ) between Earlsdon and Coventry ( U. K .) city centre throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until the bridge was upgraded.

* Bablake School was founded in Coventry, England by Queen Isabella.

This was formed in Coventry in 1973.

She was married to Edward, first by proxy, when Edward dispatched the Bishop of Coventry " to marry her in his name " in Valenciennes ( second city in importance of the county of Hainaut ) in October 1327.

A few fragments remain of the Charterhouse in Coventry, mostly dating from the 15th century, and consisting of a sandstone building that was probably the prior's house.

She was taken first to Coventry and then to the Duke of Clarence's house in London, where she became the subject of some dispute between Clarence and Richard.

He himself was at Coventry, preparing to bar Edward's way to London, while Montagu hastened up behind the King's army.

The 5. 5 mile ( 8. 8 km ) stretch which extends northwards beyond Fazeley Junction to Whittington, near Lichfield, was built by the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company, although it was built on the route authorised by the Coventry Canal's Act of Parliament.

Image: Fazeley Junction from Coventry Canal bridge. jpg | The termination of the authorised Birmingham and Fazeley Canal under the Watling Street Bridge at Fazeley

A second act received Royal Assent on 28 March 1794, entitled " An Act for extending the Wyrley and Essington Canal " – this authorised a long extension, from Sneyd ( thus making the line from Sneyd to Wyrley Bank effectively a branch ) past Lichfield to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal, together with the raising of up to £ 115, 000 (£ as of ), to complete construction.

The Manchester and Birmingham had put other plans forward, including a line from Rugby to the Midland Railway at Syston near Leicester, authorised in 1846 and the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway.

An Act of Parliament received Royal Assent on 28 March 1794, entitled " An Act for extending the Wyrley and Essington Canal ", this authorised a long extension, from Sneyd past Lichfield to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal, together with the raising of up to £ 115, 000 to complete construction.

The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the Trent and Mersey Canal would then build half each of the final to link Fazeley Junction to Fradley, following the line authorised by the Coventry Canal's Act.

The airport is owned by Patriot Aviation Group, and has a CAA Ordinary Licence ( Number P902 ) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee, Coventry Airport Limited.