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designation for the area, and all direction signage currently reads 'Stivichall'. However, in the early-1990s there was a campaign to reintroduce the 'Styvechale' variant on local signage and within civic circles, with many people finding the
Stivichall designation ugly. The local bus operators also historically never display Stivichall or Styvechale on their buses and opt for displaying Fenside instead and when route 2 used to terminate in Exminster Road buses had always displayed Cheylesmore, an alternative to this could have been a destination of 'Howes Farm' in similar fashion to the modern Tanyard Farm and Victoria Farm estates in Coventry.
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Stivichall Hall was built by the
Gregory family in the 1750s, on a site south of St James's Church, between the modern Montpellier Close and Ridgeway Avenue. It was a three-storey building with a frontage of five windows on each storey, subsequently extended into a seven-window fronted building. In
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pass through and join within the boundaries of
Stivichall, and whilst the estate was in the Gregory family's ownership, access was denied to the roads unless a toll of 1d per horse and 6d per vehicle was paid to them. The toll house which stood at the junction of the roads was demolished in 1964.
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The core of
Styvechale Manor may date from the late 17th century and may have been built on the site of a medieval manor house. Many extensions were added to it from Victorian times onwards. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was known as the Manor House, until it became Bremond College, a
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Although the pronunciation ('Styche-ull’) of the district is not in doubt, its spelling is a subject of debate. The 'Styvechale' variant is generally deemed more attractive in fitting with the Old
English tradition of the district's name, though since 1945 'Stivichall' has been the official
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Stivichall
Primary School is bounded by Green Lane and Coat of Arms Bridge Road, where the Green Lane district meets Stivichall. It has around 530 pupils aged from five to eleven years old. The original buildings, a hospital in the early 1930s, became a Junior school after the
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Stivichall, known locally as Styvechale Grange, is a large residential district developed during the late-1960s and early-1970s to cater for Coventry's then-rapidly rising population (which peaked at 340,000 inhabitants in 1971).
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Gregory family since the 16th century from whom in 1919 the land was purchased by Coventry Corporation and used in part to create the War Memorial Park, with the general development of the remainder following by the 1970s.
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The original St James's Church dated back to about 1270 and was demolished around 1800. The present church, situated on
Leamington Road, was completed in 1817, having taken seven years to build. It was extended to its present size in 1955.
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When Major C. H. Gregory-Hood sold the estate in 1932, he gave an area of fields and woods around
Stivichall Croft and Coat of Arms Bridge Road to Coventry Corporation for permanent preservation. A red
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blends into the area contiguously to the northeast. Much relatively narrower Whitley Common, which is a flood meadow, and one of two dual feeder roads to Coventry's centre on it, separates
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