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About Ilmington Gardens
In 1685 Dr Sam Derham of Oxford wrote a book ‘Ilmington Waters’ praising the pure chalybeate spring that flows from Ilmington Downs. Instead of developing into a spa, as it could well have done in the 18th century, Ilmington happily remains a very peaceful place centred on a Cotswold stone Norman church and Elizabethan Manor surrounded by clusters of houses and cottages dotted about the slopes of Ilmington Downs, the highest hill in Warwickshire and the northernmost hill in the Cotswolds. Many Saxon and Roman artefacts have been excavated in the village together with the remains of an Iron Age fort and a Roman villa nearby. The Medieval manor that once stood by the large village ponds was home to the de Montfort family for two centuries; now an oak grows in its place with Jacob sheep grazing in its shade. The village is laced with narrow stone walled walkways leading out to the surrounding hillside fields. There are two good public houses in the village.
The traditional Ilmington Morris Dancers will be performing in the village on Sunday.
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