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Newland Road houses at Leicester Causeway junction
There is an OS benchmark
Image on the blank face of the nearest house at the junction with its abutting front side wall
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 4 Apr 2018
0.05 miles
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Benchmark on #1 Newland Road (Leicester Causeway face)
Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm112012
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 4 Apr 2018
0.06 miles
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View along the Coventry Canal
There is an OS benchmark
Image on the brick wall near the right hand edge of the image
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 4 Apr 2018
0.09 miles
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Coventry Canal in Coventry
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 7 Nov 2020
0.09 miles
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Bird Grove, George Eliot Street
Bird Grove is the house where Mary Ann Evans, the future George Eliot, lived with her father Robert Evans from 1841 until his death in 1849, and where she nursed him through his final illness. These Coventry years were formative for Eliot. She lost the evangelical Christian faith of her youth and this brought her into severe conflict with her father (see
Image]). Friendship with freethinking liberals and social reformers in the city such as the Brays and the Hennells opened new intellectual avenues for her
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The house has been in a poor state for many years and is listed as 'at risk' by the Coventry Society, which in 2017 published a plea for its preservation https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/buildings-at-risk/bird-grove-house/ . The accompanying illustration shows a pair of houses, of which only one, the Eliot house, survives. It was used as an evangelical church and later as a Bangladeshi cultural and educational centre, but by 2017 it was vacant. In 2022 it looked shabby and overgrown, but new signs had appeared outside, one for an Arabic school, another in English and Bengali, depicting George Eliot and her association with the building, alongside photos and descriptions of two great Bengali poets and social reformers: Rabrindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazul Islam, who is revered as the national poet of Bangladesh.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 1 Oct 2022
0.09 miles
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George Eliot Road
George Eliot Road, Foleshill, looking towards the 'George Eliot', a nursery, and to Bird Grove, the second white house, beyond it. Bird Grove in the 1840s was the home of young Mary Ann Evans, the future George Eliot. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-42818813
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 9 Mar 2014
0.09 miles
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Bird Grove, Foleshill
Historic house on George Eliot Road, Foleshill, Coventry. Mary Ann Evans, the future George Eliot, lived here in the 1840s with her father, until his death in 1849. Her father was hoping to find her a suitable husband in Coventry, the daughter was immersing herself in learning and in the freethinking intellectual life that was found at the salon of Charles and Cara Bray, who lived nearby. The area would not have been densely built up at that time, and the house today appears much altered, compared to an illustration from the period. It was used for some years as an education centre by the Bangladeshi community, but by 2019 it was disused and boarded up. https://news.coventrysociety.org.uk/2019/05/07/george-eliot-bi-centenary-but-not-in-coventry/
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 9 Mar 2014
0.09 miles
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Coventry-Eagle Street Mosque
This small street is congested with cars belonging to people called to midday prayer.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 7 Dec 2007
0.09 miles
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Benchmark on wall beside Coventry Canal
Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm112014
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 4 Apr 2018
0.10 miles
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Towpath along the Coventry Canal
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 7 Nov 2020
0.10 miles