Church Lane, Fenny Drayton

Fenny Drayton (formerly Drayton-in-the-Clay) is a village in Leicestershire in the district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Leicestershire (ˈlɛstəʃə(r or ˈlɛstəʃɪə(r abbreviation Leics Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with Borough status in south-western Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley It is on the A444 road north of Nuneaton close to its crossroads with the A5 (the Roman road called Watling Street). List of A roads beginning with 4 in Great Britain starting north of the A4 and south/west of the A5. Nuneaton is the largest town in the English county of Warwickshire, and the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth. Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410 Watling Street is the name given to an Ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern The village is also crossed by another Roman Road.

The Ordnance Survey state that the nearby Lindley Hall Farm at SP362964 is the centre point of England. Ordnance Survey (OS is an Executive agency of the United Kingdom government There has long been debate over the exact location of the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and its constituent countries due to the complexity and method of the calculation

Fenny Drayton was the childhood home of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends. George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691 was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers

The village used to have its own public house, originally called Casa Blanca but later renamed The Royal Haven. The original site is now a housing estate.

External links

• Map sources for Fenny Drayton