Popular Tours of the Court House

On 6th July, our scheduled Court House Tour was soon fully booked, so we arranged a second tour to follow half an hour later, and that attracted 7 more people, most from the local area, but also a couple visiting Warwick from Cumbria.

The tours told of the founding of Warwick by Aethelflaed, the Anglo-Saxon Lady of the Mercians, when she had a fort built here in 914 to repel the Danes who occupied the north of England. Then the 1066 invasion from northern France brought successive Norman earls to the castle.

Guests heard that the Court House was built in 1725 after the Great Fire of Warwick had devastated the centre of the town in 1694. It replaced a tavern that had been used by the burgesses who ran the town. 

The next Court House Tour will be on Saturday 26th July from 10.30 – 11.15am. The tour is free to attend, but it is important to reserve your place at the Visitor Information Centre in the Jury Street Court House, or call the team there on 01926 492212.

Note that there are no courts here since the magistrates court was closed in the 1970s. The Court House is Warwick’s Town Hall, housing the Visitor Centre, the Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum, and an elegant Regency ballroom that is the venue for many civic, community and private functions.