Qualla: Warwick https://qualla.com/warwick en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Warwick https://qualla.com/warwick Warwick: Introduction https://qualla.com/warwick/ Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was Alfred the Great's eldest daughter and one of the most consequential rulers of Anglo-Saxon England that nobody outside specialist circles has heard of. In 914 she ordered the construction of a fortified burh on a sandstone outcrop above the River Avon - one of ten such fortresses she built to defend Mercia from Viking incursion. The hilltop was naturally defensible, the river offered water and a crossing point, the sandstone offered building material. Aethelflaed chose well. The settlement that grew up beneath her walls became Warwick. More than eleven centuries later, the castle William the Conqueror raised on the same site in 1068 is the most-visited castle in the United Kingdom, the town remains the county seat of Warwickshire, and the burh ramparts can still be traced in the geography of the older streets.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/c/warwick-wk/gcqc-warwick-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Warwick: The Hilltop Above the Avon https://qualla.com/warwick/ Warwick sits on a rocky ascent from every side, as the seventeenth-century antiquarian William Dugdale described it, with the River Avon curling around the southern foot of the town and the castle rising directly above the river in its south-east corner. The view across the Avon ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/c/warwick-wk/gcqc-warwick-the-fire-that-made-the-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Warwick: The Lord Leycester's Hospital, Still Operating https://qualla.com/warwick/ On the High Street, against the old West Gate, stands one of the most extraordinary survivals of medieval Warwick: the Lord Leycester Hospital. The timber-framed buildings around its courtyard date from 1383, when they housed the medieval guilds of the town. In 1571 Robert Dudley...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/c/warwick-wk/gcqc-warwick-the-lord-leycesters-hospital-still-operating.mp3 0:06 4 full Warwick: Tolkien, Doctor Who, and the Inspirations https://qualla.com/warwick/ J.R.R. Tolkien was married in Warwick - at the Catholic Church of Saint Mary Immaculate in 1916, a moment commemorated by a blue plaque on the church wall. Tolkien scholars have argued that Warwick gave him more than a wedding venue. Lynn Forest-Hill, writing in the Times Literar...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/c/warwick-wk/gcqc-warwick-tolkien-doctor-who-and-the-inspirations.mp3 0:06 5 full Warwick: Markets, Trains, and the M40 https://qualla.com/warwick/ Modern Warwick is a market town and civil parish of about 36,000 people, the county town of Warwickshire and headquarters of Warwickshire County Council at Shire Hall in the town centre. It sits at junctions 13, 14, and 15 of the M40 motorway that connects Birmingham and London, ...

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