Local Attractions
(National Trust house)
Motor Racing - UK Grand Prix
Horse racing
House - Washington Family Home
Syresham, Wappenham, Weedon Lois, Weston,
Moreton Pinkney, Canon’s Ashby, Preston Capes...
Site of the first demonstration of Radar (26/2/1935)
to detect a flying aircraft - in a field beside the road between Litchborough and the A5 - see plaque
Plaque in Woodend to commemorate
nine US airmen killed in a ‘flying fortress’ accident in 1944. The largest piece of wreckage was in the field marked, with other parts from here through Blakesley to Farthingstone.
