Stoneleigh, Warwickshire

Stoneleigh
Stoneleigh
Shire county	Warwickshire;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Kenilworth
Postcode district	CV8
Police	Warwickshire
Fire	Warwickshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Kenilworth and Southam;
	List of places UK England Warwickshire 52°21′05″N 1°30′53″W / 52.351436°N 1.514719°W

Stoneleigh is a small village in

Lord Leigh more than 100 years ago, after his daughter was laughed at by drunks when she was going to church on a tricycle.^[2] However it has a social club

, which meets in the evenings on Vicarage Road.

Stoneleigh was the site of the most destructive tornado of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak of 23 November 1981. The second-strongest tornado of the outbreak, rated as an F2/T4 tornado, passed through Stoneleigh and the surrounding areas at around 14:00 local time, causing severe damage including the complete destruction of a static caravan park and damage to residential buildings.^[3]

Stoneleigh Abbey

Rectory

Cottages, were totally renovated in the same year.

Stoneleigh Park

conference centre which used to host, amongst many other annual events, the Royal Show, a huge national agricultural event, and the Town and Country Festival. From 1991 to 2001 it hosted the Newfrontiers "Stoneleigh Bible Week", when up to 30,000 Christians

from all over the world gathered for worship and teaching over a fortnight with alternating weeks.

Notable people

Geoffrey Edmunds (born 1954), cricketer

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
^ "Cordelia Leigh | Leamington History Group".
^ "European Severe Weather Database".

External links

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[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

[2] "Cordelia Leigh | Leamington History Group".

[3] "European Severe Weather Database".

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