Leaflet highlights boroughs’ shared heritage

A LEAFLET promoting the history of local areas and encouraging people to explore and find out more about their influential past has been launched.

North Warwickshire and Hinckley and Bosworth borough councils have come together in the ‘Our Shared Heritage’ initiative.

The fold-out leaflet includes a map to help visitors navigate themselves around the area and highlights a selection of locations that can be visited.

North Warwickshire Borough Council says: “The leaflet takes visitors on a fascinating journey through history, drawing out some of the key people and places that have shaped what we see today.

“The journey begins with the Romans and explains how their presence is still evident today through its landscape and road network. It then moves on to the area’s Royal connections with the Grey family, its location as the birthplace of the Tudor Dynasty and its home to the founder of the Quaker religion.

“It also looks at the areas industrial heritage and the importance of the many industries that have provided employment for so many generations of local people.

“Finally, it showcases an array of ‘trailblazers’ whose lives and achievements are nationally and internationally renowned – from the likes of poet and playwright Michael Drayton, who was born in 1563, Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) who was born in 1819, and Ada Lovelace, who was born in 1815, to the more recent achievements of Andy Green, who set the world land speed record in 1997, and Horiba Mira, which is Europe’s most advanced transport technology site. The area really has played host to some amazing people and businesses.”

Deputy leader of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, David Bill, said: “The council is very mindful of the heritage in the borough and beyond so we are delighted to be collaborating with North Warwickshire Borough Council with the launch of this new leaflet.

“This leaflet recognises the many famous writers, inventors, designers, and highlights the stories and places which have influenced and determined the towns and communities we live in today.”

To view the leaflet online, go to www. https://www.northwarks. gov.uk/news/article/822/ councils_collaborate_to_ promote_shared_herit age