The best running trails around Ashow

Good route through the university.

This outcrop tells a story of when Kenilworth lay just north of the Equator in a semi-desert climate with market wet and dry seasons. Many buildings in Old Kenilworth, notably the Castle, the Abbey and St. Nicholas Church, are built of the local Kenilworth Sandstone that you can observe here.

Cuts off the Kenilworth Road and traffic lights but only when it is dry…

Ok if it is dry otherwise it’s muddy…

Kenilworth Greenway is a former railway line, now a 6.5km multi-user path, which runs between Kenilworth and Berkswell through scenic countryside. Some of the Greenway is due to be removed by HS2, but diversions are in place.

The church of St John the Evangelist was built during the Imperial period when a new parish was created. It is situated 400m north west of the cricket ground, Kenilworth. Chancel, nave, S aisle, vestry, and W tower. Erected at the S end of the town in 1852, when a new parish was created. A mixture of Gothic styles, built of red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The tower terminates in an octagonal spire.

Blackdown Mill, a watermill for which there are documentary records from the Medieval period. It was in use until the 1920s and the waterwheel and some of the machinery survive. It is on the south side of Hill Wootton Road. A mill, probably this site, is recorded in 1086. Later it became the property of Coombe Abbey. Information on ownership exists for the 16th to 20th centuries. The mill operated until the mid 1920s. The buildings are now the premises of an antiques dealer. The mill is a mixture of 18th and 19th century buildings. The older part is a three-storey brick structure with a large wooden extension housing the waterwheel. The appearance of this building has been considerably altered this century. The waterwheel is in place, but most of the machinery has been removed. In the yard behind the mill are traces of a steam engine which was installed in the mid 19th century.

The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady was originally built during the Medieval period. Alterations and additions were made to the church during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It is situated at Ashow. Parish church. Consists of an early C12 chancel and nave, and a mid-C15 west tower. Perpendicular tower of red sandstone ashlar rises in three stages to a battlemented parapet. Four-stage angle buttresses and similar buttresses at right angles which butt onto west wall of nave. West door has pointed arch. Above is a two-light pointed window with cinquefoil tracery and above a similar style belfry window. North wall of nave is built of red sandstone in coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Two small C12 round-headed windows and in the centre of the wall are two blocked doorways, one late C12 with segmental head, other is C13 with two-centred arch and foliated capitals. South wall of nave entirely rebuilt in sandstone ashlar in late C18. In it there are two 2-light windows with four-centred heads and plain tracery. Also a central door with three-centred arch. North wall of chancel is of coursed sandstone rubble and has one round-headed window similar to those in nave wall. East gable wall is of ashlar refaced in C15 when three-light pointed window with cinquefoil tracery inserted. South wall of chancel has square-headed late C16 two-light window. Nave and chancel have steeply pitched plain tile roofs with gabled ends. Interior: rendered. In the chancel there is an early C12 wall arcade on both sides, of four semi-circular arches supported on corbels. Nave roof is C16 - tie beam trusses with angle struts, each tie beam adorned with a boss at base of king posts. Chancel roof is of tie beam trusses with queen posts. Lofty tower arch of two splayed orders. Box pews, octagonal pulpit, reading desk, chancel dado, altar table, all of late C18 date in oak. On south wall of nave above entrance is a painted coat of arms of George III. Late C19 gothic font. Behind altar a c.1550 Flemish drafter.