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About Dunchurch

Dunchurch is located south of Rugby and just a short distance from the pleasures of the Oxford Canal. It was once famous as a stopping point for the coach travellers of the 18th century, but is even more famous as the Gun Powder Plot Village, for it was here, at the Old Red Lion Inn, the conspirators of the plot met on 5th November, 1605 to await news of Guy Fawkes success. Today, the Old Red Lion still exists, but it is transformed into a charming private residence known as Guy Fawkes House.

The M45 By-Pass built in the latter half of the 20th century brought blessed relief to the village, saving it from the ravages of today's modern traffic. Thus it remains a delightful place to visit with lingering memories of yester-year. These include a charming village green, village stocks and maypole, and many timeless buildings, particularly black and white timber-frame with thatched roofs, together with other houses and cottages of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Dunchurch is associated with many famous people, William Webb Ellis who invented Rugby Football is known to have visited, also Winston Churchill, the Duke of Wellington and Princess Victoria before becoming Queen. Dick Turpin of Highway fame lived in Dunchurch for several years, and the poet Longfellow is believed to have penned his Smithy poem whilst staying at the Dun Cow.

Today's visitors to Dunchurch come for its history, its lovely rural atmosphere and for its close proximity to lovely Draycote Water Park, a place of natural beauty and calm that attracts visitors from all over the Midlands.

There is much for visitors to see and do in Dunchurch. The area has a wealth of pleasant places to stay, or if you are simply enjoying a great day out, why not visit one of the several atmospheric country inns. Notable amongst these is The Dun Cow, The Old Thatched Cottage, The Green Man, Adele's and The Huntsman Carvery.

Dunchurch lies a few miles from the Northamptonshire border where you will find Althorp Park - the childhood home of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Planning a visit? Please see below for other recommended towns, attractions and recommended hotels nearby.

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Recommended attractions near Dunchurch

Draycote Water	(1.8 miles, 2.9 km, direction SW)	Pictures
Daventry Country Park	(7.4 miles, 11.9 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Coombe Abbey Country Park	(7.5 miles, 12.0 km, direction NW)	Pictures
Stanford Hall	(8.1 miles, 13.0 km, direction NE)	Pictures
Caludon Castle	(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction NW)	Pictures
Coton Manor Wildlife Garden	(10.3 miles, 16.6 km, direction E)	Pictures
Coventry Transport Museum	(10.6 miles, 17.1 km, direction NW)	Pictures
Coventry Cathedral	(10.7 miles, 17.3 km, direction NW)	Pictures
Wyken Slough Nature Reserve	(10.9 miles, 17.6 km, direction NW)	Pictures
Althorp	(12.8 miles, 20.6 km, direction E)	Pictures
Lord Leycester Hospital	(12.8 miles, 20.7 km, direction W)	Pictures
Burton Dassett Hills Country Park	(12.9 miles, 20.7 km, direction SW)	Pictures
Kenilworth Castle	(13.0 miles, 20.9 km, direction W)	Pictures
St Johns House Museum	(13.0 miles, 20.9 km, direction W)	Pictures
St Nicholas Park	(13.1 miles, 21.0 km, direction W)	Pictures

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Recommended towns near Dunchurch

Rugby, in the county of Warwickshire (2.5 miles, 4.1 km, direction NE)
This town is the home of Rugby public school, the place where William Webb Ellis carried the ball instead of kicking it, and thus, in 1823 the game of Rugby football was born.
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Ryton-on-Dunsmore, in the county of Warwickshire (6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction W)
Located in the countryside between Rugby and Coventry, this delightful village is probably best known for it's ancient parish church.
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Stanford on Avon, in the county of Northamptonshire (8.0 miles, 12.9 km, direction NE)
Picturesque village straddling the banks of the River Avon.
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Badby, in the county of Northamptonshire (9.0 miles, 14.5 km, direction SE)
Badby is an attractive village spread around a hillside. It shows a confection of pretty cottages, some of which are thickly thatched with creeper climbing up to pretty dormer windows.
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Royal Leamington Spa, in the county of Warwickshire (10.9 miles, 17.5 km, direction W)
This town has a history stretching back to the Doomsday Book, but it was Queen Victoria who put the "Royal" into Leamington Spa when she bestowed the title in 1838.
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Coventry, in the county of West Midlands (10.9 miles, 17.5 km, direction NW)
Coventry has been at the heart of industry for many decades and has a great industrial past.
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Everdon, in the county of Northamptonshire (10.9 miles, 17.6 km, direction SE)
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Guilsborough, in the county of Northamptonshire (11.8 miles, 18.9 km, direction E)
Hidden amongst leafy lanes and glorious poppy fields of the undulating Northamptonshire countryside, lies the peaceful village of Guilsborough.
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Kenilworth, in the county of Warwickshire (12.3 miles, 19.9 km, direction W)
Kenilworth is a pleasant town located in the spacious Warwickshire countryside, it is a town with an 'air of gentility' that tells you that this is a prosperous place with a long, illustrious history.
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Warwick, in the county of Warwickshire (13.1 miles, 21.1 km, direction W)
Warwick offers its visitors the chance to explore England's fascinating history with fine medieval buildings and a truly magnificent castle.
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Burton Dassett, in the county of Warwickshire (13.5 miles, 21.7 km, direction SW)
Delightful place in pleasant Warwickshire countryside.
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Farnborough, in the county of Warwickshire (13.7 miles, 22.0 km, direction S)
Traditionally known as the last outpost of the Cotswolds.
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Nuneaton, in the county of Warwickshire (14.7 miles, 23.6 km, direction NW)
It was the arrival of the railways in 1847 that caused Nuneaton to develop as an industrial textile and engineering town.
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Cropredy, in the county of Oxfordshire (15.3 miles, 24.6 km, direction S)
Famous for the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, which took place in 1644 when on the 29th of June King Charles I was victorious over Waller, leader of the Cromwellian troops.
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Culworth, in the county of Northamptonshire (15.6 miles, 25.1 km, direction S)
Sweet Northamptonshire village set amid delightful open countryside which centuries ago was sufficiently important to have it's own fair and market.
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Nearby travel help

M45 Junction 1	(1.4 miles, 2.2 km, direction W)
Rugby Station	(3.4 miles, 5.5 km, direction NE)
M6 Junction 1	(5.2 miles, 8.4 km, direction N)
Long Buckby Station	(9.1 miles, 14.6 km, direction E)
Birmingham International Airport	(20.6 miles, 33.1 km, direction NW)
East Midlands Airport	(34.2 miles, 55.0 km, direction N)
Dunchurch to London	(75.9 miles, 122.0 km, direction SE)

Hotels & Accommodation in Dunchurch

Hotel Name	Approximate distance from Dunchurch center
Village Green Hotel	(0.0 miles, 0.1 km)
Dunchurch Park	(0.3 miles, 0.5 km)
Draycote Hotel And Whitefields Golf Course	(1.7 miles, 2.8 km, direction W)
Three Horseshoes Hotel	(2.6 miles, 4.2 km, direction NE)
Diamond House Hotel	(2.6 miles, 4.2 km, direction NE)
Grosvenor Hotel	(2.9 miles, 4.6 km, direction NE)
Brownsover Hall Hotel (Form. Corus Hotel Rugby)	(4.2 miles, 6.8 km, direction N)
Golden Lion Hotel	(5.3 miles, 8.5 km, direction N)
Mercure Brandon Hall Coventry	(5.9 miles, 9.4 km, direction NW)
The Woodhouse	(6.2 miles, 10.0 km, direction W)
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