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The Paddocks, WARWICK, CV34 4LH

The evergreen tree looks like Stone or Umbrella Pine (Pinus pinea).

The field gate on the right allows access to Priory Park for the grounds maintenance contractor.

Display on fence of Warwick Nursery School by entrance to Priory Park off Coventry Road. "After over a year of living with COVID 19, everyone at Warwick Nursery School had a think and discovered they had all had wonderful moments they would love to remember and to bottle... so we bottled them!"

Raoul or Rauli is the common name of a species of Southern Beech, Nothofagus procera. It was introduced to Britain from Chile in 1913. The leaves are perhaps 4-8 cm long, from the tree photographed in November 2022 Image The buds are next season's flower buds. Photo number 6718173.

Woodville Court flats were built on the site of a Volkswagen sales and service centre that occupied a former industrial site. The VW franchise moved to Tachbrook Park business park, south Leamington, as have many other car dealers. This view is from the back of the kickabout corner of Priory Park. It is bounded by Coventry Road, left, Station Road, out of shot left, and St John's Brook, out of shot right. The bollards define a footpath to Warwick Nursery School. The area has so far been spared conversion to parking for Warwick station. This view is the reverse of Image

The road mainly serves Warwick Children's Centre and Nursery School, among the trees, centre, allowing a safe drop-off for car-borne tots. An informal path continues into the main area of the park. On the left is the park frontage of Woodville Court, flats developed on the site of a VW dealership and garage.

The brook rises north of Warwick and is culverted for much of its length, then emerges from under the railway embankment into Priory Park. It dives under St John's to emerge south of St John's House for a quick run through St Nicholas Park (where it once powered a mill) before joining the River Avon.

It heads straight for the site of Priory House (dismantled in the 1920s) but turns sharply south on approaching a scrub-covered bank which may once have been part of an Iron Age hillfort. The trees in the middle distance were planted in the early 1990s as the first stage of an arboretum.

Centre-stage is a small road roller parked on finished work. Looks like knocking-off time: 3:30 on February afternoon, although the exceptional light would allow them to carry on further up the road. In the background is Woodville Court, recent flats on the site of a VW showroom and service centre, with Priory Park beyond it. On the right is another recent housing development, Coach House Mews.