Horsehay Quarries

A contour-hugging early canal wandering from Coventry's doorstep through empty Midlands countryside to the Thames at Oxford.

3.1 km E · spans 4 counties

Fourteenth-century estate-village church with a series of medieval wall paintings uncovered in the late 1980s.

5.9 km W

Estate village of thatched ironstone cottages set among trees, with the Falkland Arms and a hillside church above.

6 km W · Oxfordshire

Hilltop 'apricot village' on the Oxfordshire edge, its honey-coloured houses trained with apricot trees below Aynhoe Park.

8.2 km NE · Northamptonshire

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

10 km SW

Moated medieval manor much used on film.

11.5 km N