Hawkesbury Lane railway station

Hawkesbury Village is a settlement in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, central England.

Foxford Community School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Longford area of Coventry, West Midlands, England.The school has a catchment area of north-east Coventry, stretching from Broad Heath to Longford and Holbrooks to Bell Green. The school has over 1,000 students including some 150 in sixth form education. The school was previously awarded specialist status as an Arts College, and had a new sixth form building built in 2006. Previously a foundation school administered by Coventry City Council, in October 2018 foxford converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Castle Phoenix Trust.

Hawkesbury Junction or Sutton Stop (grid reference SP360846) is a canal junction in England, at the northern limit of the Oxford Canal where it meets the Coventry Canal, near Hawkesbury Village, Warwickshire, between Bedworth and Coventry. The alternative name, Sutton Stop, arises from the name of a family which provided several lock keepers there in the nineteenth century.

Exhall is a village in the Nuneaton and Bedworth borough in Warwickshire, England. It forms part of the Coventry and Bedworth urban area and is contiguous with the Coventry suburb of Longford and the village of Hawkesbury Village.

The two Coventry power stations supplied electricity to the county borough of Coventry and the wider Warwickshire area from 1895 to 1976. They were owned and operated by Coventry Corporation until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The first power station was established in 1895 off Sandy Lane north of the city centre. A new larger power station was built at Longford / Hawksbury Junction in 1928 and was extended in 1938 and 1941. The Longford station was decommissioned in October 1976.

Longford is a ward in the north of Coventry, West Midlands, England. The population of the Ward as taken at the 2011 census was 18,538. It is covered by the Coventry North East constituency and bounded by the wards of Holbrooks, Henley, Upper Stoke and Foleshill.

Bedworth ( or locally ) is a market town in the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. It is situated between Coventry, 6 miles (9.5 km) to the south, and Nuneaton, 3 miles (5 km) to the north. In the 2021 census the town had a population of 31,090.

Miners' Welfare Park is the premier urban park in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England.

Longford & Exhall was a small railway station serving the areas of Longford and Exhall, to the north of Coventry, England, on the Coventry to Nuneaton Line, built by the London and North Western Railway. The station was opened in 1850, along with the line, and was the first to be closed, closing on 23 May 1949.It was located at the point where the railway line crossed over Woodshires Road.

Bedworth United Football Club is a football club based in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands and play at the Oval.

The Bedworth Civic Hall was a multi-purpose entertainment venue in the town centre of Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. The centrepiece of the venue was a 763-seat hall, other facilities included a gallery, meeting rooms, a bistro, a coffee bar and a small hall. It was owned and managed by Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council.The facility was opened in September 1973. In 2004, the hall underwent a major refurbishment costing £1.4 million. The facility permanently closed in October 2022 and is set to be demolished under regeneration plans launched by Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough CouncilIn 1990, the world famous opera singer Luciano Pavarotti sang here as a rehearsal with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.Other notable acts to have performed at the venue include Lenny Henry, Billy Ocean, Pam Ayres, Billy Fury, AC/DC, Ken Dodd, Morecambe and Wise, The Drifters, Larry Grayson, Norman Wisdom and Cilla Black.In 2021, the hall was used as a vaccination centre during the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2022, it was announced that the theatre had permanently closed and that it would be demolished. The announcement received a negative reception from residents and visitors, who have started and signed petitions in a bid to keep the venue open.

The Roman Catholic Parish Church of Saint Francis of Assisi is located in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. The parish is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and a part of the Rugby Deanery. The current Parish Priest is Fr. Michael Gamble. The parish is jointly administered with the neighbouring parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bulkington (whilst still remaining technically separate). Working alongside the diocesan clergy are a group of Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.