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Coventry where you can hear skylarks. Despite this Coventry City Council propose the area can be developed as an "Eco" suburb with 3000 homes, and a separate estate of new properties is currently being built, as of January 2010.
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For most of its history, Keresley was a combination of two further villages: Keresley Green was the most northerly and first to exist, but it was
Keresley Heath to the south which was developed the most with the building of schools and the church of St. Thomas. However, in 1911 the construction of
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Keresley parish is largely rural and contains some beautiful ancient woodland. Coventry City
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