Honiley
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Honiley is a small village in the parish of Honiley and Wroxall, Warwickshire, UK. It is found 2.5 miles from Kenilworth, and 5.5 miles from Coventry on the A4177. The parish has a population of 156 accordng to the United Kingdom Census 2001 residing in 64 dwellings.
The village contains a medieval moat, an upmarket hotel and a small business park. A little way off to the north-east of the village is a vehicle proving ground.
Honiley was once famous for its two wells, which both had links to the village church of St.Johns (built 1723). If a man and a woman produced a child out of wedlock the two were to go to village wells (the men to St John's well, the women to Our Lady's well) and bath. After that they were to crawl to the church to the statue of St John and ask for forgivness. The village was, for a while at least, a small centre of pilgrimage.
[edit] References
- Honiley on Multimap.com
- Census information on the Parish of Honiley and Wroxall
- Smith, B (1990), Hidden Warwickshire, Countryside Books, Newbury, ISBN 1-85306-098-4
