Did You Know?

Coventry is a city in the midlands. It’s best known for Coventry Cathedral, which was left in ruins after a massive WWII bombing. A 20th-century replacement, with new abstract stained glass. The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum includes paintings of local heroine Lady Godiva. A statue of her, naked on horseback, is nearby Cathedral..

Coventry has a good central location, most places are “only 30 Minutes away” like Solihull, Stratford Upon Avon, Birmingham, Leicester, Warwick, Bedworth and Nuneaton. It has been a very popular city for the music industry.

It is believed that the name derives from the “Cofa’s Tree”, a tree which grew at a crossroads which later became the site of Coventry Castle and is now Broadgate. So where local coventrians now shop, the name sake used to sit.

It's believed Paul McCartney was stopped for speeding on Fletchamstead Highway in Coventry on July 22, 1968. He was driving an Aston Martin and did not appear in court but was fined £15.

It has two universities (Warwick and Coventry) and three cathedrals - the ruins of St. Mary's, destroyed by Henry VIII, the ruins of St. Michael's, blitzed in November 1940 and Sir Basil Spence's new cathedral, consecrated in 1962 and recently voted Britain's most popular 20th century building.

Glass painter John Thornton, creator of York Minister's Great East window, the finest single work in stained glass in mediaeval England, was a Coventry man.

The legend has it that Coventry was the birthplace of St. George, the dragon slayer and patron saint of England. Britain's car industry was founded by Daimler Motors in a disused cotton mill in 1896. 

Did Lady Godiva really ride her horse through the streets naked in protest against high taxes? Many historians say it is a myth, but even if it is, Lady Godiva was very real. An 11th century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, she was known for her generous nature and along with her husband, Earl Leofric, she founded a Benedictine monastery 

The Coventry has a rich motoring heritage, which can be traced back to 1896 when Henry Lawson founded the Daimler Motor Company and from this, a factory called The Motor Mills which gave us the first British car.

Did you know that Warwick Castle is one of the most famous castles in the world? People come from all over the globe to visit this imposing castle, located in the town of Warwick, which was, originally a wooden motte-and-bailey castle but rebuilt in stone when King Henry II reigned.

Although there are various theories of the origin of the name, the most widely accepted is that it was derived from Cofa's tree; derived from a Saxon landowner called Cofa, and a tree which might have marked either the centre or the boundary of the settlement.