Footpath along approximate route of Rookery Lane
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Footpath along approximate route of Rookery Lane
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 15 Jun 2021
Rookery Lane ran from Rookery Farm in Keresley to the crossroads in Ash Green, where it crossed Wheelwright Lane and joined what is now St. Giles Road, but was then Dead Lane (perhaps because the dead were carried that way to their final resting place in St. Giles churchyard). A track continued south from Rookery Farm to Nunts Lane. This, at least, is the picture given by the OS Six Inch maps of the 1888-1913 series. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.45525&lon=-1.51101&layers=6&right=OSAPI The landscape was subsequently rearranged by the building of Coventry colliery, now the site of Prologis Park, and by the advance of suburban Coventry. The northern section of the lane, from Ash Green to the edge of Prologis Park has become Blackberry Lane. Rookery Farm has disappeared under the grounds of President Kennedy school, while the track to Nunts Lane has become a built-up, suburban Rookery Lane. In between these two roads, paths run among trees around the edge of Prologis Park. The building with the 'broken pediment' roof is Ashbrook Court, a Prologis Park office block built around 2004.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.452978
Longitude
-1.519213
