Warwickshire

Midlands administrative region

Warwickshire is a county in central England, part of the West Midlands region.

It contains Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace, and the medieval Warwick Castle.

The county is often abbreviated to Warks.

We drove through Warwickshire on our way to Birmingham.

county

Midlands

England's central region

Rugby · Kenilworth · Coventry · districts · borough · governance · boundary · jurisdiction · regional · civic

Shakespeare

Stratford-upon-Avon

Warwickshire market town

Anne Hathaway · playwright · dramatist · sonnets · Globe · Elizabethan · Hamlet · Othello · Macbeth · Romeo

rural

countryside

Rural area beyond towns

meadows · hedgerows · villages · Cotswolds · bucolic · orchards · livestock · arable · harvest · thatched

historic

medieval

Of the Middle Ages

  • heritageInherited cultural legacy
  • TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
  • castlesFortified royal residences

ruins · abbey · Norman · Saxon · Roman · Civil War · chronicles · manors · archaeology · antiquity

cricket

Bears

Large furry omnivores

wicket · innings

Family

shire, shires, Warwick

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