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I did overhear a couple of locals speaking of one area of the park being an old quarry...
Neilhttps://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/w ... /pp131-133
etween the Nuneaton-Atherstone road and the village lie the extensive Hartshill quarries. Here red syenite granite is worked, as is manganese of a comparatively high quality. Tramways running in a north-easterly direction connect the quarries with the Coventry Canal and the L.M.S. Railway.
There is an extensive wood, known as Hartshill Hayes, stretching west from the village to the boundary of the civil parish of Oldbury. This corresponds to the manorial woods called in 1275 Suthaye, le Hokehaie, and le Newhaie. (fn. 2) On the eastern edge of the wood are the remains of Hartshill Castle.
, the Royal Oak public house, a mineral railway and tramways, the vicarage - where I can imagine Alec Guiness playing the part of the vicar 
, a Sunday School, a castle with a moat (remains of), and plenty of benchmarks. 
I'm really enjoying all this and that old map is amazing... Comparing it with an OS map of today is most revealing in what can still be identified... I'm loving this and really appreciate all your research Robin and NeilNewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑28 Apr 2023, 08:48 Looks like the "Hayes" bit relates to Hayes in Middlesex and some landed gentry connection, and that the Hartshill Woods were more "manorial woods" around Hartshill Castle rather than the industrial heritage of quarrying (which locally and surprisingly to me was a form of granite) and brickmaking.
