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Oldbury View, Castle Road, NUNEATON, CV10 0SQ

The terrace of houses here is of a very unusual design. As the road name suggests they do have a good view towards Oldbury Camp, an old hill fort, about a mile away.

The plaque states that this bench was placed by Hartshill Parish Council in 2020 to commemorate the 74th anniversary of VJ day 15th August 1945.

Hartshill might not be the obvious place to look for a peace pole but it does have one, located here outside the Friends Meeting House. Peace poles originated in Japan and there are now more than 200,000 around the world, a project promoted by The World Peace Prayer Society. Each pole has the motto 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' in the local language and up to 13 other languages. In this view the English and Welsh versions are visible.

Hartshill has a long Quaker tradition that stems back to the 17th century when George Fox, one of the founders of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who came from Fenny Drayton about 2½ miles away, met Nathaniel Newton here. Newton became one of the first Quakers and left a legacy that established a school in the village. The first meeting house was built here in 1720 but the modern building, seen in this view, dates from about 1972.

Quaker Meeting House on Castle Road, Hartshill, viewed from the front lawn. The building dates from the early 1970s. George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, was born in 1624 about 4km to the north-east, in the Leicestershire village of Drayton-in-the-Clay (known today as Fenny Drayton), and Hartshill is the nearest Quaker meeting existing today. Early Friends, as Quakers are known, met for worship in the barn of Nathaniel Newton, who knew Fox. In 1720 Newton had the first Meeting House built in the village, later replaced by a brick building. He also founded a boarding school. Both later fell into disuse, but the meeting was revived in 1868. https://thefriend.org/article/the-quakers-of-hartshill

The remains of this motte and bailey castle, founded in the 12th century by Hugh de Hardreshull, can be accessed along a track from Castle Road in Hartshill.

Little is made of this 12th century motte and bailey castle which can be approached only by an unsigned muddy path and lacks any sort of interpretation board. The fortification was founded by Hugh de Hardreshull, whose name has become corrupted to Hartshill in modern times; his descendant, John de Hardreshull, founded a stone castle adjacent to, but not enclosing, the motte, the remains of which can still be seen (but not in this view).

Hartshill Castle is a 12th century earthwork motte and bailey fortress, founded by Hugh de Hardreshull. In 1330, John de Hardreshull founded the stone castle when enclosing the bailey, with an irregular polygonal curtain wall, pierced by cross-shaped loopholes. To the north-west, stands the circular motte, encased by a wide ditch and in the bailey are the remains of a contemporary stone-built chapel. In the 16th century, Michael and Edmund Parker founded a castellated, four-gabled timber-framed manor house, in the north east angle of the bailey but sadly the greater part of the house has collapsed. (From www.castleuk.net ) Fragmentary remains of a castle. C13. Coursed squared Hartshill granite, with sandstone dressings. Sections of curtain wall, rising to a maximum height of approximately 3 metres, have quoins and cross-loops. In the north-east corner is a large brick chimney containing 2 chamfered stone fireplaces, all that remains of a C16 house built within the walls. (From listing description)

Stag and Pheasant pub. Looking across the green from Castle Road.

Looking good in the autumn sunshine, the Stag and Pheasant overlooks the green in Hartshill. The pub incorporates an Indian restaurant.