* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England.

He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

Kenilworth Castle is located in the town of the same name in Warwickshire, England.

Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles.

The former BL / Rover Group technical centre at Gaydon in Warwickshire is home to the corporate and R & D headquarters.

There have been further claims made that he is from Swannington in Leicestershire or Loxley, Warwickshire.

This is Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire.

While its earliest boundaries will never be known, there is general agreement that the territory that was called " the first of the Mercians " in the Tribal Hidage covered much of south Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and northern Warwickshire.

Rugby School is a co-educational day and boarding school located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

Borsetshire is situated between the ( in reality contiguous ) counties of Worcestershire and Warwickshire, south of Birmingham in the West Midlands, although it has been occasionally misinterpreted as Dorsetshire in South West England.

Stratford-upon-Avon (, known locally as Stratford ) is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England.

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England.

* Warwickshire, a county in the Midlands of England, the county town of which is Warwick

The only other Hanwell in Britain is a small parish in Oxfordshire on the boundary with Warwickshire.

Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where the wife of William Shakespeare lived as a child in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about west of Stratford-upon-Avon.

The River Avon or Avon is a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Midlands of England.

The river is also known as the Warwickshire Avon or Shakespeare's Avon.

Travelling south from Kingswood Junction, the first aqueduct is the modest Yarningale Aqueduct which carries the canal over a small stream near Preston Bagot, Warwickshire.

The Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

Kenilworth ( pronounced ) is a town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, about southwest of Coventry, north of Warwick and northwest of London.

On the border of Moseley is Edgbaston Cricket Ground scene of an heroic Ian Botham performance in 1981 and home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club for whom Brian Lara scored 501 not out in the 1994 County Championship ; a record in First Class Cricket which stands to this day, and will most likely never be broken.

The Oxford Canal passes mainly through the Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire countryside, and is often considered to be one of the most scenic canals in Britain.

The Oxford Canal passes mainly through the Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire countryside, and is often considered to be one of the most scenic canals in Britain.

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon.

Memorial window in Binton Church, Warwickshire, one of four panels.

Tamworth continued to grow and remained one of the most populous towns in the Midlands by 1670, when the combined hearth tax returns from Warwickshire and Staffordshire list a total of some 320 households.

The practice had become increasingly popular throughout the ensuing centuries, with the maypoles becoming " communal symbols " that brought the local community together-in some cases, poorer parishes would join up with neighbouring ones in order to obtain and erect one, whilst in other cases, such as in Hertfordshire in 1602 and Warwickshire in 1639, people stole the poles of neighbouring communities, leading to violence.

In the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter by King Edward II and throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Warwickshire.

A number of mines (" pits ") in the United Kingdom were profitable and remained open after the strike, several of which still operate ( including one in Warwickshire and four in Yorkshire ).

At the time of the first national census in 1801 Nuneaton was already one of the largest towns in Warwickshire, with a population of 5, 000.

There are no teams and no goals, though in the last century the match was played between a team from Warwickshire and one from Leicestershire.

He married Mary Arden, one of the Ardens of Warwickshire, a local gentry family and reportedly a niece of John Shakespeare's father Richard Shakespeare.

Earl Shilton had a regular fixture at one period with Coventry and North Warwickshire.

Bond bells still in use include four of the ring of six at St John the Evangelist, Taynton, one and a Sanctus bell at St Nicholas, Chadlington and one at St Peter's, Whatcote in Warwickshire.

Two Birmingham merchants represented Warwickshire at the council held in York in 1322 to discuss the standardisation of wool staples, and others attended the Westminster wool merchants assemblies of 1340, 1342 and 1343, a period when at least one Birmingham merchant was trading considerable amounts of wool with continental Europe.

Charles John Coventry ( 1867 – 1929 ), second son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry and former wife of James George Greville Dugdale ( 1898 – 1964 ) of Wroxall Abbey, Warwick, Warwickshire, but had no issue by her ( one stepdaughter ).

At 11: 00 the position of the attacking force was the Canterbury and Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiments, two squadrons of 1st Light Horse Regiment, one squadron of 2nd light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, 10th Light Horse Regiment ( 3rd Light Horse Brigade ), 1st ( Australian ) Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Gloucestershire Hussars with the Inverness Battery covering the New Zealanders, the Leicester and Somerset Batteries the Australians, the Hong Kong Battery covering the Battalion of Camel Corps Brigade while the HAC battery shelled " C " group of redoubts from a distance of.

The unknown fate of Phillimore has been a subject for other stories, including: The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr ; " The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex " by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre ; one episode of the Italian comic book series Storie di Altrove ( a spin-off from the more famous Martin Mystère ); and Bert Coules's BBC Radio adaptation The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson from The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and educated at King Henry VIII Grammar School, Duckham made his debut against Ireland and quickly established himself as one of England's best centres, playing alongside John Spencer.

At his peak, he was one of the best bowlers in England, and it is believed that the MCC erred in not taking him to Australia, after he was the leading wicket-taker in the country for a struggling Warwickshire side in 1946.

For some time it was owned by the Throckmorton family of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, descendants of one of the perpetrators of the Gunpowder Plot.

In 2001, at the age of 69, she was made a life peer, as Baroness Howe of Idlicote, of Shipston-on-Stour in the County of Warwickshire, in her own right, becoming one of the first People's Peers.

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire.

Defeats against Worcestershire ( by 3 wickets ), and Northamptonshire ( by 4 wickets ), left the team in danger of not qualifying for the Quarter-Finals, but victory over Gloucestershire ( by 2 wickets ) on the last day, meant that Warwickshire qualified as one of the best third-placed team.