Hall Green cottages, Windmill Road, Foleshill
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Hall Green cottages, Windmill Road, Foleshill
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 22 Mar 2023
Foleshill was a large parish of scattered settlements, with houses built around greens or spread out along roads. Coal mining, ribbon weaving and agriculture dominated the local economy. The parish fields were enclosed in 1775 and Windmill Lane, today Windmill Road, was laid out at this time. These cottages, part of a settlement historically known as Hall Green, would have been built alongside the road some time later. The change of name to Windmill Road reflects the spread of Coventry suburbs into the area at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. See David Fry & Albert Smith, The Coventry we have lost: Forgotten Foleshill, Simanda Press, 2018.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.442903
Longitude
-1.475481