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Wolvey is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,741, increasing to 1,942 at the 2011 Census. The village is located on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border in an outlying part of the borough of Rugby. The village is, however, more than 11 miles (18 km) north-west from the town of Rugby and closer to Hinckley (4.5 miles to the north), Nuneaton (5.5 miles to the north-west) and Coventry (9 miles south-west). The source of the River Anker is near the highest point in the parish, at 130 metres (427 ft) above sea level. Originally on the main route between Leicester and Coventry, it is now served by the B4065 and B4109 roads. The hamlet of Bramcote forms a western part of the parish.

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  • Wolvey es una localidad situada en el condado de Warwickshire, en Inglaterra (Reino Unido), con una población estimada a mediados de 2016 de 880 habitantes.​ Se encuentra ubicada al sureste de la región Midlands del Oeste, cerca de las fronteras con las regiones Midlands del Este, Sudeste de Inglaterra y Sudoeste de Inglaterra, y de la ciudad de Coventry. (es)
  • Wolvey est un village et une paroisse civile du Warwickshire, en Angleterre. Administrativement, il dépend du district de Rugby. (fr)
  • Wolvey is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,741, increasing to 1,942 at the 2011 Census. The village is located on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border in an outlying part of the borough of Rugby. The village is, however, more than 11 miles (18 km) north-west from the town of Rugby and closer to Hinckley (4.5 miles to the north), Nuneaton (5.5 miles to the north-west) and Coventry (9 miles south-west). The source of the River Anker is near the highest point in the parish, at 130 metres (427 ft) above sea level. Originally on the main route between Leicester and Coventry, it is now served by the B4065 and B4109 roads. The hamlet of Bramcote forms a western part of the parish. Discoveries of Neolithic flint tools and Bronze Age burial mounds suggest early occupation of the parish while a major Roman road, Watling Street, forms part of the parish boundary. The village certainly existed in Saxon times and the Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, records 22 households with three further households at Bramcote. By the 12th century there was an additional township, which included a chapel, at the now deserted site of Little Copston (Copston Parva). At this time Wolvey was an important population centre for the area with a weekly market and an annual fair. The village still retains some older buildings including the church of St John the Baptist with its Norman doorway and monumental tombs of Thomas de Wolvey (died 1311) and his wife Alice; also that of Thomas Astley and his wife, Catherine (died 1603). The South Aisle of the church was rebuilt by Thomas de Wolvey's daughter as a memorial Chantry to her husband Sir Giles de Astley who died following the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The church building has undergone considerable repair and alteration over the years. The chancel was rebuilt in the gothic style by Lord Overstone of Wolvey Grange in the mid-nineteenth century and the present porch to the south door added in 1909. The Millennium Building to the south of the church was built in 2000 to provide important support facilities. The early village would have clustered around the market place (now The Square) but there is little evidence of it in today's buildings. A staircase dated 1677 in Wolvey Hall reflects the rebuilding of the original house but this was remodelled in 1889. Other late seventeenth century survivals, although modified, include Hollytree Cottage in Wolds Lane and probably 'The Blue Pig' public house with the village pump which will have served as a coaching inn for the Coventry – Leicester traffic in earlier times. The ‘Old Thatched Cottage’ on the edge of The Square dates to the later eighteenth century as does the Baptist Chapel, built in 1789. This was the site of a Second World War airfield, RAF Bramcote, subsequently used by the Royal Naval Air Service and renamed HMS Gamecock. Since 1959 it has been used by the army and is known as the Gamecock Barracks. Essentially a farming community for most of its history, industrialization affected the village in the nineteenth century when knitting and weaving became important trades for a time. There is no evidence to support the popular view that it was a milling centre with 27 windmills. The well-known engraving of four windmills in Wolvey, published in 1854 by Thomas Dugdale, has been shown to be a forgery and was based on an earlier print of windmills on Montmartre, Paris. While rural industry continues, modern housing provides for a commuting population benefiting from the village's proximity to major motorway and rail networks and urban centres. The name Wolvey most probably came from the old English wulf-hæg or wulf-heg e = "wolf hedge" = "enclosure with a hedge to keep wolves out". (en)
  • Wolvey is een civil parish in het bestuurlijke gebied Rugby, in het Engelse graafschap Warwickshire met 1942 inwoners. (nl)
  • Wolvey – wieś w Anglii, w hrabstwie Warwickshire, w dystrykcie Rugby. Leży 28 km na północny wschód od miasta Warwick i 139 km na północny zachód od Londynu. W 2001 miejscowość liczyła 1741 mieszkańców. (pl)
  • Wolvey är en civil parish i Storbritannien. Den ligger i grevskapet Warwickshire och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet, 140 km nordväst om huvudstaden London. Kustklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är 8 °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är 16 °C, och den kallaste är december, med −1 °C. (sv)
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  • Wolvey es una localidad situada en el condado de Warwickshire, en Inglaterra (Reino Unido), con una población estimada a mediados de 2016 de 880 habitantes.​ Se encuentra ubicada al sureste de la región Midlands del Oeste, cerca de las fronteras con las regiones Midlands del Este, Sudeste de Inglaterra y Sudoeste de Inglaterra, y de la ciudad de Coventry. (es)
  • Wolvey est un village et une paroisse civile du Warwickshire, en Angleterre. Administrativement, il dépend du district de Rugby. (fr)
  • Wolvey is een civil parish in het bestuurlijke gebied Rugby, in het Engelse graafschap Warwickshire met 1942 inwoners. (nl)
  • Wolvey – wieś w Anglii, w hrabstwie Warwickshire, w dystrykcie Rugby. Leży 28 km na północny wschód od miasta Warwick i 139 km na północny zachód od Londynu. W 2001 miejscowość liczyła 1741 mieszkańców. (pl)
  • Wolvey är en civil parish i Storbritannien. Den ligger i grevskapet Warwickshire och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet, 140 km nordväst om huvudstaden London. Kustklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är 8 °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är 16 °C, och den kallaste är december, med −1 °C. (sv)
  • Wolvey is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,741, increasing to 1,942 at the 2011 Census. The village is located on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border in an outlying part of the borough of Rugby. The village is, however, more than 11 miles (18 km) north-west from the town of Rugby and closer to Hinckley (4.5 miles to the north), Nuneaton (5.5 miles to the north-west) and Coventry (9 miles south-west). The source of the River Anker is near the highest point in the parish, at 130 metres (427 ft) above sea level. Originally on the main route between Leicester and Coventry, it is now served by the B4065 and B4109 roads. The hamlet of Bramcote forms a western part of the parish. (en)
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