Easy hikes and walks around Sherbourne

A wonderful, simple, dilapidated cemetery. In the shadow of the imposing church, you feel invited to study the old gravestones.

The Lord Leycester Hospital (often known simply as Lord Leycester) is one of the best-preserved examples of medieval court architecture in England and a charity supporting former soldiers. It is located in Warwick, England, next to the West Gate on the High Street. It is a Category I listed building.[1] The hospital is an outstanding and internationally renowned Warwick landmark. Buildings and civic activities have taken place on the site for nearly 900 years, beginning with the chapel built in 1126. The site was donated to the United Guild of the Holy Trinity and St. George in the 14th century by the 12th Earl of Warwick. The Guild Hall, Great Hall and Master's House were built in the late 15th century. Over the centuries, the ancient buildings and 500 year old gardens have been visited by many famous visitors such as Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, etc. Wikipedia

The many crooked walls alone are worth a visit. Everything was very nicely done.

Visited to see Dragonslayer show fantastic castle and grounds

The Tudor House has been closed for a few years, now. There are a couple of pubs/bars nearby, The Castle Pub next to the Tudor is vibrant, the Old Post Office is quirky and traditional and the Four Penny nearby has rooms and great food.

Charlecote Mill, a watermill recorded in the Domesday Survey and in written sources from the Post Medieval to the Modern periods. The present building dates to the 18th century, with two undershot water wheels, and two sets of milling machinery. It was restored in 1978. The mill as you see it today was probably built in the eighteenth century, but on the site of earlier mills. A mill at Hampton Lucy is even mentioned in the Doomsday Book (compiled 1086).  It was then valued at 6s.8d. Little is known of the mills and their millers over the years, but a noticeable incident occurred in 1675 when the miller John Dickens and three other men were indicted for 'the felonious stealing and carrying of two perches and  two pikes of the value of 11d, of the goods and chattels of Richard Lucy  Esq.' Dickens and Robert Nason  confessed, and were sentenced to be 'stripped from the waist downwards and openly whipped through the town of Hampton Lucy till their bodies be bloody'. The present mill building and mill house were evidently built by the Lucy estate, and are still owned by Sir Edmund Fairfax Lucy.The present mill, apparently built in 1752, is a particularly fine building, with walls eighteen inches thick. The names of the millers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century can be ascertained from trade directories, etc.  The name of one, William Witherington, who was miller from 1845 to 1864, can be seen carved in the brickwork on the top floor. The last millers were Newbery and Son, from 1936 to the 1950's; however, they used mostly an engine-driven hammer mill, and from the time of the Second World War, the only equipment driven by waterpower was the sack hoist. From 1978, John Bedington had a lease over the mill and he and Tom Mitchell, aided by a band of helpers too numerous to mention, have done extensive repairs to the roof, windows, floor, stairs and doors, gears, stones, sack hoist and bins and the East water wheel. The West water wheel was repaired in 1978 by the Birmingham millwright Bob Atkins at the expense of the BBC for their film of 'The Mill on the Floss'.

Guy's Tower is 12-sided and stands at 29 metres high. Dotted around each of the twelve sides are grated machicolations from which rocks and other projectiles could be thrown down upon an enemy attempting to breach the base of the tower.

West Gate is a grade I listed stone archway that dates back to the 12th Century. Located at the junction of the High Street and Bowling Green Street in Warwick town centre, the structure was one of three gates through Warwick’s medieval town wall and supports St James Chapel which forms part of the Lord Leycester Hospital. The A429 High Street passes to the south of the structure but the pedestrian footway passes through the archway. The archway is constructed from a type of sandstone that is susceptible to a form of erosion called contour scaling. This results in a hardened crust breaking away from the face of the stone revealing a softer granular layer beneath. Much of West Gate’s masonry is heavily eroded, particularly on the outside elevation that faces the High Street and the vaulted section of the archway, beneath the chapel’s bell tower.