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Leek Wootton & District Horticultural Society holds an Annual Flower Show at the Village hall on the Saturday of the weekend before the August Bank Holiday. There are various gardening, cooking and household classes and children's competitions, ranging from miniature gardens to digital art.
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In 2016, for HM The Queen's 90th Birthday celebrations, the annual Church Garden Fete was amalgamated into a Parish Fete held on "The Rec". This has remained a regular event, with a break in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19. In 2022 a Big Jubilee Lunch was held instead for HM The Queen's Platinum
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and the inclusion of some of the estate in a local housing planning allocation, the site was put up for sale in 2018. On 1 April 2019 Warwickshire Police announced that, due to the collapse of its alliance with
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Council on 31 October 2007. A revised application was subsequently approved, but the site was not redeveloped. In 2011 it was announced that Woodcote was to be sold, and the headquarters relocated to
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When Leek Wootton First School was threatened with closure in the early 1990s, the community campaigned to save it and a new school was built at the southern end of the village and
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Road, and a small area of woodland to the north west of the village (accessed from Waller Close and the Recreation Ground). To the north of Leek Wootton is the
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Recreation Ground is to the north-west of the village. "The Rec" as it is known locally is home to a children's playground, Leek Wootton
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of Hill Wootton, Chesford, Goodrest, North and Middle Woodloes, has a population of approximately 1,100. The village is adjacent to the
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from 1949. A new purpose-built headquarters for the Police at Woodcote was proposed, but the planning application was refused by
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and murdered him; one ran him through the heart with his sword and the other beheaded him.
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collapsed in a railway accident on 11 June 1861 with the driver and fireman being killed.
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The railway bridge over the road between Leek Wootton and Hill Wootton on the
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period, around 9,000. They also found three graves of Anglo-Saxon origin.
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Blacklow Hill is found to the south of the village, close to the
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and estate on the western boundary of the village. During the
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and just north of Hill Wootton this meets the much larger
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church centred in the middle of the village. The current
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On 1 April 1986 the parish was abolished and merged with
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Woodcote, once the home of the Wise family, former HQ of
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The hill hunter-gatherers called home 9,000 years ago
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is in the wood on the hill. It marks the point where
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and comes out at the north end of the village on the
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There are numerous public footpaths and walks in the
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Leek Wootton is located in Warwickshire
Warwickshire
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Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe
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