Welcome to Warwickshire

Welcome to the County of Warwickshire. Take a day out and explore the town of Royal Leamington Spa with it's Georgian and Regency houses, art gallery and museum. Alternatively you might like to visit two of the UK's leading tourist attractions, Warwick Castle and Stratford upon Avon the birthplace of Shakespeare. Warwick Castle is the most visited stately home in the UK and is an impressive and majestic structure dating back to the 14th century.

Warwick gets it's name from the old English word 'wering' which means river dam. Early records from the eleventh century name it as 'waerinc wicum' meaning river dam dwellings. Situated on the river Avon it is easy to understand how it acquired it's name.

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