Temple Balsall
Appearance
Temple Balsall (
2011 census can be found) and Balsall Common. It was formerly in Warwickshire
and is on a notoriously bad series of bends on the B4101 Kenilworth Road.
It is one of the oldest and most interesting sites in the borough. It is named after, and dates from the time of, the
Queen Elizabeth I gave the estate to Robert Dudley. The 13th-century church [1]
and Old Hall, and 17th-century almshouses survive.
Robert Dudley's granddaughter, Lady Katharine Leveson of Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, inherited the estate. On her death in 1674, Lady Leveson left endowments for almshouses, the Lady Katharine Leveson primary school and the local church.[2] There are only a handful of residences in the hamlet.
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