Historic pubs · West Midlands
Queen & Castle
Queen & Castle — Historic pub — listed building or notable heritage status.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Kenilworth · 1.4 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Queen & Castle is a historic pub in Warwickshire, the West Midlands — listed in heritage records for its surviving fabric, fittings or trading history. It sits within the Kenilworth and Southam parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Kenilworth, about 1.4 km away. Postcode area CV8.
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From the Wikipedia article
Queen's Castle, also known as Camp Fossenvue or simply Fossenvue (an anagram for "seven of us")), is the remnant of a historic camp located at Lodi in Seneca County, New York. It is a rustic, lakeside camp structure built about 1881 on the shore of Seneca Lake.
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Background
History
It is a one-story, roughly square, 17 feet, 6 inches by 18 feet, structure surmounted by a steeply pitched wood shingled hipped roof. It is the sole surviving component of Camp Fossenvue, established in 1875 as an informal, lakeside summer retreat where liberally minded young women could indulge in a variety of radical, even scandalous, intellectual, physical, and recreational activities. Its last year of operation as a women's camp was in 1901. In 1924, the site was sold to the Elmira Council of Boy Scouts for Camp Seneca, which continued to operate until 1989. The United States Department of Agriculture purchased the property in 1996, adding it to the Finger Lakes National Forest. It was…
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- Coordinates
- 52.3490, -1.5906
- County
- Warwickshire
- District
- Warwick
- Parish
- Kenilworth
- Postcode
- CV8 1ND
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam
- Established
- 1881
- Nearest railway station
- Kenilworth — 1.4 km
Sources
- osm: w287511451 (ODbL)
- commons: Queen and Castle, Kenilworth.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- wikipedia: Queen's Castle (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen & Castle?
- Queen & Castle is in Warwickshire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode CV8 1ND), in the parish of Kenilworth.
- When was Queen & Castle built?
- Built or established in 1881.
- How do I get to Queen & Castle?
- The nearest railway station is Kenilworth, about 1.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode CV8 1ND.