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Local Towns and Villages

ASTON Famous football team (Villa). Aston Hall is a great Jacobean house dating from 1635 with a panelled long gallery that is one of the finest in the land.

BIRMINGHAM Ring-road city but if you can navigate through it well worth a visit to the City Museum and Art Gallery and Science & Industry Museum. Bournville, home to Cadbury's chocolate, is an absolutely fascinating garden-suburb-factory estate established by George and Richard Cadbury with their Quaker idealism to provide pleasant and healthy working surroundings for their workers. Cadbury World is a must for any choco-holics!

COVENTRY Known as the city of three spires: the original 303 feet cathedral spire that survived German bombs; Holy Trinity Church at 231 feet; and Christ Church's spire at 204 feet.

EDGBASTON A mere six-minute drive from the city centre, this is home to the famous international cricket ground but there are also fine Botanical Gardens laid out in 1831, and Cardinal Newman's Classical church, the Oratory.

KENILWORTH The castle is its glory with Norman, Plantagenet and Tudor add-ons - Henry I, Henry II, John of Gaunt, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I all had connections with it. Cromwell had it dismantled and it remains the grandest fortress ruin in the country.

NUNEATON Busy manufacturing town with 12th-century Church of St Nicholas.

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA Fashionable 19th-century spa town with lovely Georgian, Regency, and early Victorian terraced houses. Napoleon III resided here awhile, and the Duke of Wellington, Sarah Bernhardt and others took its waters.

RUGBY Apart from the obvious - the market dates back to Henry III.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON There is much to see here, and it is also a lively market and shopping centre for local people. In the many pubs try the local beer.

SUTTON COLDFIELD Saxon ties. Glorious Sutton Park has altered little since Norman times. Places to Visit Arbury Hall, Nuneaton

Charlecote House, Wellesbourne

Coughton Court, Alcester

Ragley Hall, Alcester

The Shakespeare Houses, Straford-upon-Avon

Upton House, Banbury

Calendar Regular performances at three theatres - the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Swan Theatre and The Other Place - during the long summer season at Stratford. You can see famous plays and works of Shakespeare's contemporaries and even modern plays.

There are celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon on the Bard's birthday, 23 April - also St George's Day.
June: Stratford Regatta. Boat race on River Avon.
Warwick: Year-round pageants and banquets at Warwick Castle.
The Royal Show is held at Stoneleigh in July.
Birmingham's NEC (National Exhibition Centre) plays host to anything from motor shows to Meatloaf and Cliff Richard concerts. Huge antiques fairs happen here in January and April; Crufts Dog Show is in March, with over 100 breeds competing for the Best in Show title.
Warwickshire County Cricket Club hosts the first test match for overseas visitors at Edgbaston, with County matches throughout the season.
Mid-October: Warwick Mop. Now a funfair but traditionally a hiring fair where people looked for work.
December (first week): Victorian street fayre.
January (second Saturday): Warwick National Race (jump racing).
July: Warwick Folk Festival.
August: Warwickshire and West Midland Game Fair in Alcester.

Famous names from the region Comedian Tony Hancock came from Birmingham.