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March 2024

Monday 18/03

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April 2024

Thursday 11/04

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Monday 15/04

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May 2024

Thursday 09/05

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Monday 20/05

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June 2024

Friday 14/06

All Day
CovSoc Visit to Pershore

Saturday 15/06

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Civic Day

Monday 17/06

19:00 – 21:00
Coventry Society Committee Meeting
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July 2024

Monday 15/07

19:00 – 21:00
Coventry Society Committee Meeting
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Thursday 18/07

14:00 – 16:00
CovSoc Visit to Maxstoke Castle tbc

August 2024

Thursday 08/08

14:00 – 16:00
CovSoc Visit to Sherbourne Valley Project

Monday 19/08

19:00 – 21:00
Coventry Society Committee Meeting
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September 2024

Wednesday 18/09

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting

Monday 23/09

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Coventry Society Committee Meeting

October 2024

Wednesday 09/10

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting
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Monday 14/10

19:00 – 21:00
Coventry Society Committee Meeting

Saturday 19/10

All Day
Heritage Conference

November 2024

Wednesday 06/11Friday 08/11

Feister gathering

Wednesday 13/11

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting
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Monday 18/11

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December 2024

Wednesday 11/12

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting
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Monday 16/12

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January 2025

Wednesday 08/01

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting
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Monday 20/01

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February 2025

Wednesday 12/02

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting
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Monday 17/02

19:00 – 21:00
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March 2025

Wednesday 12/03

19:30 – 21:30
CovSoc Meeting
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Tile Hill

Tile Hill is a neighbourhood within Woodlands Ward in the west of Coventry.

Historically, Tile Hill was part of the Forest of Arden and some of the original woodlands still exist in Plants Hill Wood, Pig Wood, Limbrick Wood and Tile Hill Wood. These collectively give the name to the political ward of “Woodlands”. Much of the area was under the control of the Stoneleigh Estate, until it was purchased by the Corporation in 1926. It was primarily a rural area with scattered dwellings.

Tile Hill may have taken its name from a medieval tile manufacturer in the area. The area has connections with the Civil War and names such as Banner Lane, Cromwell Lane and Red Lane suggest that Cromwell may have been in the area around the time of the taking of Kenilworth Castle.

Today Tile Hill is primarily a residential neighbourhood with a mixture of private and social housing. Tile Hill village with its adjoining railway station is the most prosperous part of the ward. The former Massey Ferguson tractor factory was in its heyday the largest tractor factory in the western world is currently being redeveloped for housing purposes. The demolition of the Massey tower block was well reported on local media.

Today the neighbourhood can claim fame as the subject of the painting of George Shaw, an artist shortlisted for the Turner Award in 2011. Although he now lives and works in Devon, he was brought up in Tile Hill and the neighbourhood forms the subject of most of his paintings.