Place:


Whitley  Warwickshire

 

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Whitley like this:

Whitley, vil., Coventry St Michael par., Warwickshire, on river Avon, 2 miles SE. of Coventry. At Whitley Abbey, a seat in vicinity, Charles I. resided for a few days in 1642. The Avon is here crossed by Whitley Bridge.

Additional information about this locality is available for Coventry

Whitley through time

Whitley is now part of Coventry district. Click here for graphs and data of how Coventry has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Whitley itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Whitley, in Coventry and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24321

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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