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23-460: The Record Office was first founded in 1933 when it was sited in the Shire Hall. Forty years after its founding it moved to its present site, which is a purpose-built building next to Priory Park . The building was later refurbished and extended in 2002 to 2003, with two new strongrooms and improved facilities for researchers. A new conservation workshop was also provided, in an adjacent building, which

46-488: Is a local government district in Warwickshire , England . It is named after the historic county town of Warwick , which is the district's second largest town; the largest town is Royal Leamington Spa , where the council is based. The district also includes the towns of Kenilworth and Whitnash and surrounding villages and rural areas. Leamington Spa, Warwick and Whitnash form a conurbation which has about two thirds of

69-556: Is a remaining part of the original 16th/17th house on the site that was demolished (except for this small part) in 1925. Records in the County Record Office include parish registers for Warwickshire, local government records for the county, school records for the county, court records including quarter sessions and coroner's records and the records of the Warwickshire Constabulary . Several hospital archives are at

92-532: Is also covered by civil parishes , which form a third tier of local government. The council has been under no overall control since 2019. Following the 2023 election a coalition of the Greens and Labour formed to run the council, led by Green councillor Ian Davison. The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing councils before coming into its powers on 1 April 1974. Since 1974 political control of

115-463: Is an urban park located in the centre of Warwick , England . Originally the land was the grounds of a 12th-century priory dedicated to St Sepulchre and built in 1124 but this was closed down by King Henry VIII during the dissolution of the Monasteries . It was then destroyed and a residential home was built in 1566 by a man named Thomas Fisher known as Hawkins. In the 17th century, the estate

138-608: The Leamington Spa Hospital , St Michael's Hospital and the Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital (non-NHS, part of the Nuffield Health group) Social services is pro On 13 July 2021 a coronavirus "mega lab" was opened in the town. Named after English chemist Rosalind Franklin . The site is expected to be capable of processing "hundreds of thousands of samples a day". The largest laboratory of its kind in

161-502: The University of Warwick . The Grand Union Canal flows through the district and the M40 motorway also passes through. Right on the edge of the district is Coventry Airport . National Health Service general healthcare is provided by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and mental health care by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust . Local hospitals include Warwick Hospital ,

184-430: The 7 May referendum, – which was put back to 6 May 2021, due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 2022 the referendum has not yet occurred and no date has been set. The district has six railway stations – Warwick , Warwick Parkway , Leamington Spa , Kenilworth , Hatton and Lapworth . Regular bus services run between Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth and onwards to Coventry , Stratford upon Avon and

207-572: The GRO index (an index of the General Register Office 's birth, marriage and death certificates). The Warwickshire County Record Office is not the only repository holding archives relating to Warwickshire. Many of the records for certain areas of the historic county of Warwickshire are held by other record offices. Other archives that hold records relating to the historic county of Warwickshire include: Priory Park, Warwick Priory Park

230-669: The Greville family ( Earls of Warwick ), the Feilding family ( Earls of Denbigh ), the Seymour family ( Marquises of Hertford ) and the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall . In addition to the archive material kept by the record office, there are various other resources for researchers. These include a library of secondary sources relating to Warwickshire, newspapers, maps, photographs, microfilm copies of census returns for Warwickshire and microfilm copies of

253-517: The Record Office, including those of Warwickshire County Lunatic Asylum at Hatton and the former Warneford Hospital in Leamington Spa . The records of a few local firms can also be found, with many solicitors records and those of concerns like Eagle Engineering, Needle Industries Ltd and Stanley Brothers of Nuneaton . A number of prominent local families also have records in the office including

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276-450: The UK, and it is hoped it will create up to 1,500 jobs. It will also play a "key role in responding to new variants of the virus". Historic hospitals included St Michael's Leper Hospital , Warneford Hospital and Central Hospital . Social services and fostering are dealt with on a countywide basis by Warwickshire County Council . The district is divided into 32 civil parishes , which cover

299-410: The council group leaders to increase council tax by around £1 a week on Band D properties to create £3 million per year. This would be ring-fenced for environmental purposes. If this proposal was accepted by the other councillors then a district wide referendum would have been held on 7 May to decide if the public accept it. On 26 February the full council unanimously agreed the proposal, triggering

322-600: The council has been as follows: The leaders of the council since 1995 have been: Following the 2023 election and a change of allegiance in April 2024, the composition of the council was: The next election is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 44 councillors representing 17 wards with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years. Council meetings are usually held at Leamington Spa Town Hall on The Parade, which had been built in 1884 for

345-773: The district's population. The neighbouring districts are Rugby , Stratford-on-Avon , Solihull and Coventry . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 . The new district was formed through the merger of four former districts, which were all abolished at the same time: The new district was named Warwick after the county town. Proposals to merge the district with neighbouring Stratford-on-Avon District were put forward in 2021 and provisionally agreed, before eventually being abandoned in April 2022. Warwick District Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Warwickshire County Council . The whole district

368-454: The elected members at the Full Council meeting declared a "climate emergency" in response to ongoing global climate change . The council aims to become carbon neutral by 2025, whilst trying to make the whole district carbon neutral by 2030. On 20 January 2020 it was announced that electric cars would be given free parking in council car parks. On 4 February of that year it was proposed by

391-503: The house to the Virginia Historical Society who still maintain it today. http://www.vahistorical.org/your-visit/virginia-house The estate now is owned and managed by Warwick District council and is a public park. (Part of the park is owned by Warwickshire County Council but managed by WDC) There is very little evidence of the previous buildings in existence. In 1958 and 1979 there were international scout gatherings at

414-476: The late 1990s there was a small children's play area in the middle but this was removed. The nearest play area can be found a minute's walk north west from the park under the railway bridge in a smaller 5-acre (20,000 m ) park called Priory Pools. Because there are many burrows around the park European rabbits are a common sight, even to the casual observer. The total public area of the main park currently stands at 28.7 acres . Famous artists have visited

437-699: The old Leamington Borough Council. The council has its main offices at Riverside House on Milverton Hill in Leamington, close to the River Leam . That building was completed in 1984 as the headquarters of the Leamington Spa Building Society , and was subsequently bought by the council in the late 1990s. Plans are being considered to move the council's main offices nearer to the town centre of Leamington Spa; various schemes have been proposed since 2016, but none has yet to come to fruition. On 27 June 2019

460-567: The park and a plaque by one of the paths commemorates this. The AMIKARO referred to on the plaque means Friendship in Esperanto. Seven trees were planted, although 3 of these have since died and replaced in 2012, to spell AMIKARO. In the 1970s Warwickshire County Council moved its record offices to the eastern part of the estate into a purpose built building. The public park area is composed of unimproved grass areas that are cut but not landscaped and there are many clumps of trees to explore. Until

483-587: The park; Canaletto in the 1740s and in 1809 John Constable made a sketch. A painting by a Pre-Raphaelite artist John Brett was auctioned in 2018. A free leaflet has been published which is both a nature and history walk around the Park and Priory Pools. Available at Warwick Tourist Information Centre, Jury Street, Warwick (with effect from February 2016) and also online. [1] 52°17′07″N 1°35′04″W  /  52.2852°N 1.5845°W  / 52.2852; -1.5845 Warwick (district) Warwick

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506-428: Was built in 1852 at the north-east of the estate. In 1926 Alexander W. Weddell , an American diplomat and his wife Virginia, a wealthy woman in her own right, purchased the property after seeing the advertisement that Priory House was to be demolished. They bought the house and shipped several thousand tons of the stones and other materials for the building of Virginia House , Richmond, Virginia in 1928. They signed

529-514: Was owned by Sir Thomas Puckering, 1st Baronet and his heirs, including Sir Henry Puckering, 3rd Baronet who was MP for Warwickshire and then the borough of Warwick . By 1850 the property had been taken over by the famous Warwickshire family, the Wises. During that year the Great Western Railway company were allowed to build an embankment to extend the line to Warwick station which

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