Photo of Henley-in-Arden, a village in Warwickshire, central England.

Henley-in-Arden© Colin Park / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Villages & towns in WarwickshireWarwickshire, England

21 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Warwickshire — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Warwickshire.

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Henley-in-Arden

A market town with a mile-long High Street of medieval and Tudor buildings, reckoned among England's finest.

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Ilmington

Honey-coloured stone and black-and-white cottages around a green at the foot of Ilmington Downs, the highest ground in Warwickshire.

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Welford-on-Avon

Thatched cottages and one of England's tallest maypoles in a loop of the River Avon west of Stratford.

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Napton-on-the-Hill

A hilltop village above the Oxford Canal with a windmill, a hilltop church and wide views over the Feldon.

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Shipston-on-Stour

A Georgian former wool town at the gateway to the Cotswolds, with independent shops and old droving streets.

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Wootton Wawen

An Arden village on the Stratford Canal, home to St Peter's, the oldest church in Warwickshire with Saxon fabric.

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Tredington

A quiet Stour-valley village near Shipston, its church spire among the tallest in the county.

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Alcester

A Roman town where a timber-framed High Street and narrow Malt Mill Lane survive largely unchanged.

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Bidford-on-Avon

A riverside village on a medieval bridge over the Avon, with riverside walks and greens.

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Hampton Lucy

A quiet village beside the Avon near Charlecote, dominated by Thomas Rickman's soaring Gothic Revival church.

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Aston Cantlow

Half-timbered village on the River Alne where Shakespeare's parents are said to have married, with the medieval King's Head inn.

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Brailes

Upper and Lower Brailes strung along the Cotswold edge in honey stone, crowned by the huge 'Cathedral of the Feldon' church.

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Long Compton

A long thatch-and-stone street on the Cotswold edge near Oxfordshire, within walking distance of the Rollright Stones.

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Preston on Stour

An estate village of brick-and-timber cottages around a green south of Stratford, with a Georgian-Gothic church.

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Tysoe

A three-part ironstone village in the Vale of the Red Horse, with good walking up onto Windmill Hill and the Edgehill escarpment.

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Whichford

A Cotswold-fringe village around a broad green, home to Whichford Pottery and its handmade terracotta.

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Charlecote

A tiny estate village of listed cottages beside the Avon, wrapped around Charlecote Park and its deer.

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Lowsonford

A scatter of cottages along the Stratford Canal in the Arden countryside, gathered around the canalside Fleur de Lys pub.

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Coleshill

A ridge-top town between two rivers with a steep old High Street and a landmark medieval spire.

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Lapworth

A scattered Arden parish where the Grand Union and Stratford canals meet, near Packwood and Baddesley Clinton.

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Polesworth

An old abbey village on the River Anker in the far north, once a circle of Elizabethan poets, with a Saxon-founded church.

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