Fenny Drayton
Fenny Drayton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Witherley, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England.
Fenny Drayton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Witherley, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It lies near the Warwickshire boundary, three miles south-east of Atherstone in the Coventry postcode area, just off the A444, the Roman Watling Street. Another Roman road crosses at the end of the scenic Fenn Lanes. The village is four miles from Stoke Golding, where Henry VII of England was crowned after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The reinterment of Richard III of England on 21 March 2015 started along Fenn Lanes, near the village. In 1931 the parish had a population of 125. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Witherley, parts also went to Hartshill, Mancetter and Caldecote. The name means "farm/settlement for portage" or "farm/settlement used as a dragging place". "Fenny" reflects the fen-like ground along the Roman road.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Fenny Drayton
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Manduessedum
Manduessedum or Manduesedum was a Roman fort and later a civilian small town in the Roman Province of Britannia. It was located on and immediately to the east of the site of the modern village of Mancetter, located in the English county of Warwickshire, close to the modern town of Atherstone.
3 km · archaeological site in Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Hartshill Castle
Hartshill Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Hartshill on the outskirts of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. It is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register due to erosion, structural problems and vandalism; most notably when the castle was damaged by vandals in October 2016.
3.4 km · castle in Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hartshill Hayes Country Park
Hartshill Hayes Country Park is a country park located immediately west of the village of Hartshill in northern Warwickshire, England in between the towns of Nuneaton and Atherstone. The park covers 137 acres of woodland, and is run by Warwickshire County Council.
3.6 km · country park in Warwickshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Lindley
Higham on the Hill is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 840.
1.7 km · deserted village in Higham on the Hill, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia - 05Mount Judd
Mount Judd is a man made hill and landmark in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. It is the former spoil tip of the Judkins Quarry, which extracted granite in the area.
3.8 km · hill in Nuneaton, England · Wikipedia - 06Weddington Castle
Weddington Castle, or Weddington Hall, was a manor house in the village of Weddington, Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Evolving from a Royal Hunting Lodge in the ancient village of Weddington to become an extensive fortified Hall set amidst landscaped gardens, this centuries-old building was demolished in 1928 to make way for a housing estate.
3.7 km · manor house in a village of Warwickshire · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Fenny Drayton
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 22 km · East Midlands (EMA), 31 km · Manchester (MAN), 102 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fenny Drayton113 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
- London → Fenny Drayton150 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Fenny Drayton106 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Fenny Drayton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fenny Drayton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 01209 km
- 02268 km
- 03411 km
- 04440 km
- 05446 km
If you know how people move in Fenny Drayton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Fenny Drayton
Fenny Drayton is 18 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mancettervillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Higham on the Hillvillage and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Caldecotevillage in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Hartshillvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Witherleyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK2.5 km
- Uptonhamlet in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.2 km