Limo Hire Warwickshire

Our beautiful stretched white Baby Bentley limousine is available to hire in Warwickshire and surrounding areas. Places of interest are Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare County Raceway, Kingsbury Water Park and many more.

Warwick Castle overlooks the River Avon and is situated in the town of Warwick in the county of Warwickshire. It is traditionally associated with the earldom of Warwick, one of the oldest in England. The castle today is a popular tourist attraction and attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world.

Currently Warwick Castle houses a working scale model trebuchet. The trebuchet can be fired by members of the public under professional supervision. It stands 19 m tall and uses a 6-tonne counterweight to fire 15 kg stone balls distances exceeding several hundred feet. Other attractions include "Warwick, Ghosts Alive," "Winged Warriors" (a bird show, featuring bald eagles, vultures, and hawks), an archery display, and the "Kingmaker" Exhibit. These are only open at certain times of the year however.

Kenilworth Castle is in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Historically the Castle was contained within the Frest of Arden. Richard judge lived there from 1542. In 2005 English Heritage announced that after archaeological investigations revealed more details of the original garden, it will be restoring the garden more closely to its Elizabethan form. A fountain and aviary will be reconstructed. The project is scheduled for completion in 2008.

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon some 38 kilometres (24 miles) south of Birmingham and 14 km (9 miles) south-west of the county town, Warwick. It is the main town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon (which uses the term "on" to indicate that it covers a much larger area than the town itself). In 2001, the town's population was 23,676. The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace and deathbed of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world.

Shakespear Country Raceway - Long before the Warwickshire countryside echoed to the sounds of rumbling V8 supercharged racing engines, Long Marston Airfield came into its own as a satellite wartime RAF station in 1941.

Constructed by John Laing & Son in 1940 the airfield layout saw the construction of three tarmac runways laid out in the standard 'A' configuration, with the main one measuring 1,500 yards and the other two 1,100 yards each. This was later changed when runway two (home to the UK's second permanent drag strip Shakespeare County Raceway), was extended to 2,400 yards. Three hangers were also erected and billets for over a 1000 permanent staff and trainee air crews were stationed just across what is now the B4632 Stratford to Cheltenham road, just yards from the airfield's main entrance.

In the proceeding years, units from the RAF's Group of Ferry Command's were stationed at Long Marston, providing training flights and missions to Gibraltar and the Middle East. But it was in the summer of 1942 when the big bombers pounded the runways. Legendary aircraft such as Wellingtons, Beauforts, Doninies, Hudsons, Bristol Bombays, and the American built Marylands all flew missions from the Warwickshire station.

The first recorded incident on the airfield occurred in March 1943 when a Whitney V crashed on take-off after its undercarriage collapsed. A month later, a Wellington III crashed after making an emergency landing having taken off from nearby Gaydon after suffering engine failure. The bomber crashed into two stationary Whitley V's. Four Canadian airmen in the Wellington were killed and another injured. Five months later in two fatal accidents, ten RCAF airmen from Long Marston were also killed.

In 1945, stationed personnel began to disband as the airfield began winding down its operations under instructions from the Air Ministry. Training flights were still operational but in very frequent circumstances. With the last units gone, the airfield ceased operations in the summer before being placed in the hands of No 8 Maintenance Group from nearby Little Rissington. For months, the runways fell silent. The only memory left were the wartime buildings, bunkers and a large collection of redundant and dismantled Wellingtons.

As the years rolled by, the airfield was placed under a Care and Maintenance Order by the Air Ministry and was subsequently refurbished for flying training purposes as young eager National Service pilots jammed the skies with their Airspeed Oxfords belonging to No10 Advanced Flying School. Sadly, the training flights only lasted until 1954 after another Order was issued from the Air Ministry finally called time on RAF Long Marston.

Soon after the airfield was acquired, several locally based motorsport clubs began looking for alternative venues to host their events in the late fifties. One such club was the Evesham Auto Club who held several very successful two lane quarter mile sprints on the very same runway and direction as today's drag racing layout. In fact, many consider that those events in 1959, together with the appearance of Britain's first ever dragster built by Allan Herridge may even have been the countries first ever drag strip!

Long Marston also played host to motorcycle road racing. Using parts of the airfield's perimeter roads and runways. Many considered this to be a challenging circuit with its long straights and tight corners. The airfield also was used for bike sprinting, with the National Sprint Association looking after the events, Rallycross and Rally Sprint (televised by the local ATV Midlands broadcaster), and Jalopy Racing (a poor man's form of Banger/Autocross oval racing on grass). Long Marston was also home to several local football and cricket teams with there pitches marked out where the Sunday Market overflow car park is situated these days.

However, it was much later in the seventies when drag racing properly got started at Long Marston. Organised by the touring NDRC (National Drag Racing Club) and a promotions company started by British Top Fuel racer Clive Skilton, the first event was held on September 9th 1973; the fifth and penultimate qualifying round for the Castrol RAC National Drag Racing Championship.

With the strip laid out on the shorter of the three runway's with the start line situated where the Sunday Market entrance is today, racing was a little unpredictable as over a 100 racers struggled to find grip on the far from ideal bumpy surface. However, not to go unnoticed Clive Skilton, in the ex Kurl & Olson Castrol GTX dragster ran 208 mph in 7.23 seconds beating Dennis Priddle and Roland Pratt.

A second quarter mile event in June 1974 was run but with only 80 entries received and most of the bike competitors refusing to ride due to the deterioration of the surface, sadly put an end to racing at Long Martson, but only for a short time.

Three months to be exact; Saturday 1st September when the newly formed Midland Drag Racing Association held an eighth of a mile bracket meet on the same piece of tarmac as the previous quarter mile events. With an admission price of £1.75 per car, nearly 50 vehicles, some of which were driven straight off the street, raced that day for trophies and a mention in the clubs monthly newsletter Fire Up. There was no timing equipment or Christmas Tree. Just a flag starter and an observer at the end of the track to say who had won. Real grass roots stuff, and the rest as they say, is history.

Kingsbury Water Park is a country park in north Warwickshire, England, not far from Birmingham and lying on the River Tame. It is owned and managed by Warwickshire County Council. It has 15 lakes situated in over 600 acres (2.4 km²) of country park. It is renowned for its birdlife, and is popular with birdwatchers.

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