Pond by Scimitar Way, Whitley
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Pond by Scimitar Way, Whitley
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 30 Mar 2024
This pond is marked as a Fish Pond on the Whitley Abbey estate on the OS Six Inch Map, 1885-1915 series. It is roughly reverse-S-shaped. The big house at Whitley was a manor house that was renamed 'Whitley Abbey' in the 19th century, though there was never a monastery here. It housed Belgian refugees during the First World War, then fell into decay. Coventry City Council built a school on the site in the 1950s; the school can be seen beyond the pond. See the Coventry Society site on Whitley https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/coventry-neighbourhoods/whitley/ .
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Image Location
Latitude
52.385986
Longitude
-1.487631