Warmington

What to see in Warmington

St Michael's is listed Grade I and stands on the east side of the main road at the top of a steep rise. The county history reads a twelfth-century nave, aisles added in the twelfth century and widened from about 1290, and a west tower begun about 1340. Four steps lead down into the church through the reset south doorway.

The thing to see is the priest's chamber of about 1340, above the north chapel and reached by a spiral stair. It has a fireplace, a garderobe, and a watching hole that looks into the chancel, with an iron grille and an oak shutter. In the chancel are a fifteenth-century piscina and three sedilia with carved heads. We could not find published opening hours.

Below the church, the green is almost rectangular, with houses on three sides. At its higher south end stands the Manor House, listed Grade II*, with tall pinnacles on its gables. Historic England dates it to about 1603 and says it was probably built for Richard Cooper; the county history puts it in the late sixteenth century.

Warmington and the Battle of Edgehill

The Battle of Edgehill was fought on 23 October 1642 a few miles west, and Warmington buried some of the dead. The parish register, now in the Warwickshire County Record Office, records Richard Sannes, a captain of foot from Worcestershire, buried on 24 October, and Alexander Gourdon, 'a Scotsman', on 25 October, with seven more unnamed in the churchyard. Gourdon's headstone still stands there.

The war did not leave. The Record Office says one of Oliver Cromwell's units held the village in the autumn of 1644, during the failed siege of Banbury, and that the vicar, Richard Wootton, armed Parliament and led a troop at Warwick before he was expelled in 1656. The Civil War in Banburyshire has the rest.

A morning in Warmington

Walk up to St Michael's first and give it half an hour, then go down round the green to see the Manor House. Spend the rest of the morning at the National Herb Centre on the Banbury road, about half a mile south. In the afternoon, Upton House is on the ridge to the south-west, or go on to Farnborough.

Walks from Warmington

Three waymarked trails pass the village in OpenStreetMap: the Macmillan Way, the Battlefields Trail, which links Edgehill with Cropredy and Edgcote, and a branch of the Centenary Way. The Battlefields Trust notes that rights of way across the Edgehill battlefield were closed in the 1940s for the army depot, so check the route on the map before relying on it. We have not yet published a walk from Warmington with a route we can stand behind.

Food and drink near Warmington

Warmington has a pub, but we could not find 2026 evidence from it, so we name it only when it has been checked. The National Herb Centre has a café bistro, its own site says. The Castle at Edgehill is the nearest checked pub, on the ridge.

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When to come to Warmington

Any dry day. The anniversary of Edgehill falls on 23 October, and the burials here followed over the next two days. The church and the green are quiet at any time.