Little Quest - Warwickshire

Saturday May 1st 2010

Warwickshire....what do you think when you think of this county. Posh is usually what comes to mind....Stratford upon Avon and Warwick (and in particular Warwick Castle) are some of the great tourist places in the entire county....easily reflected in the price of houses here lol In fact on any of the sign posts indicating you have reached Warwickshire it will tell you proudly that it is "Shakespeares county". Well this was our destination for our 5th leg of a 48 leg journey around England...we doubt however when you think

A plant even bigger than Josh

of Warwickshire you think of a small village called Newbold Pacey. As usual the animals were out in force to give team Shiltonpig a scare, after the attack by the 5 deer yesterday, we were still a little shaky...as 2 massive dogs came bolting down the path. Now we are more than happy for dogs to run free and enjoy themselves, but the speed and the size of these dogs was superhuman...they were like giant great Danes with fangs and vampire tendencies and wanted to suck out our blood. I exaggerate not! An interesting conversation ensueded with the nearby dog owner, and I think they understood our concerns by the end of the "chat".

Josh "Lord of the Manor (pond)"

Newbold Pacey had in 1086 (that dreaded Domesday Book appears again) had simply been Newbold and by the time the 12th century turned around, some lord of the manor type guy (Adam de Pacey) had renamed the village in their honour. Shame the ancestor wasn't called shiltonpig as Newbold Shiltonpig has a nice ring to it don't you think? Newbold is a very very small village...heck we didn't even see a pub there...I mean whats that all about?? However more intriguing is the fact that in 1185 Knights Templar were given land. Perhaps Dan Brown might visit and be the title of his new bestseller??

A glow above church?

The cache in question was at the back of a couple of fields which to be honest didn't take that long. So we decided to have a wander around the rest of the small village. Even though it was about 9.30 the village didn't seem to have woken up, not to worry though as Josh could make enough noise for the rest of them. Especially as he needed his nappy changing. The St George church was rebulit in 1881...but for the life of us we can't work out why they have put a bus stop in the middle of the graveyard, I mean its ok to have some lovely large well trimmed hedges...but a bus stop?

A Bus stop in a graveyard??

The things some churches do these days? As it was called St George we had hoped to see a Dragon, we were sadly disappointed...not even a sniff of one. Though Josh picked one up at McDonalds later in the day...does that count?? So a very short and quick Little Quest trip, our quickest Little Quest find so far. This means our journey has added us another 100 miles onto our trip, meaning so far 314 miles for our LQ adventures.