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Park Road, KENILWORTH, CV8 2GF

Houses which form Oddibourne Terrace.

This pub on the corner of Stoneleigh Road and Park Road is notable for its unusual name. According to a notice in the pub (which should be taken with a pinch of salt) some members of the Wyandotte tribe, having been driven out of their native land in Ohio, moved to England and settled in Kenilworth in the 19th century. The landlord of the pub was so impressed by this that he decided to rename it in their honour, in return for which each landlord becomes an honorary chief. However, John Brightley tells a more plausible story here: Image Whatever the truth, this is a pleasant place in the back streets of the town and well worth seeking out.

Looking from the foot/cycle path that runs alongside Finham Brook towards the terrace of mid 19th century cottages on School Lane, at its junction with Manor Road. The same terrace in 1910s: https://www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=1274&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=oddibourne&SortOrder=2 (external link - Windows on Warwickshire)

At the junction of Albion Street, Stoneleigh Road, Park Hill and Park Road. On the death of Edward Boddington, sometime between 1854 and 1861, his son John took over the Engine Inn. On 13th September 1867, John Boddington bought land from Samuel Burbery, and built for himself a new public house. One of John Boddington's sons, John Clarke Boddington (born 1838) emigrated to the United States in 1864. Once there, he worked at railway workshops before finding work at the Kansas Pacific Railroad. In 1867, just as his father was building his new pub in Kenilworth, John Clarke settled in Wyandotte County and it was his new home that gave his father the name for his new inn. JC Boddington later became Assistant Master Mechanic for what had become the Union Pacific Railroad. He was at one time a councillor in Old Wyandotte City and was described as a 'pioneer resident' in 1902. He died in 1922 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Kansas. Story from 'Victorian Kenilworth and its People' by Robin Leach.

Victorian corner pub on Stoneleigh Road, at the corner of Park Road. Internally, two entrances labelled "bar" and "lounge", now one space, but on different levels; games machines, TV, pool, darts. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Marston Bitter, Wychwood Hobgoblin. For some customer comments, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/33/33618/Wyandotte_Inn/Kenilworth Apparently named after a Native American tribe, though why transferred to Kenilworth is unclear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyandotte,_Michigan To explain this anomaly, see http://victorian.reuna.co.uk/index.php/the-engine-the-wyandotte-and-four-boddingtons

Stagecoach Warwickshire bus 35178, operating on the X17 service from Warwick to Coventry, takes the tight turn from Albion St into Park Hill at 9am in the morning. The timetable schedules buses from opposite directions to meet at this point, which can prove a difficult manuouvre at times.

Anglican parish church at the corner of Stoneleigh Road and Park Hill: http://www.stnicholaskenilworth.org.uk/

The allotment site was open to the public as part of the Heritage Open Days 2021 and Edible England events.

For the 2010 General Election.