Coventry Leasing

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Coventry is a city in the midlands. It’s best known for Coventry Cathedral, which was left in ruins after a massive WWII bombing. A 20th-century replacement, with new abstract stained glass. The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum includes paintings of local heroine Lady Godiva. A statue of her, naked on horseback, is nearby Coventry Cathedral..

Coventry has a good central location, most places are “only 30 Minutes away” like Solihull, Stratford Upon Avon, Birmingham, Leicester, Warwick, Bedworth and Nuneaton. Coventry has been a very popular city for the music industry.

Did you know Monty Python's first ever live performance was at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry in 1971?

JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth was based on Warwickshire. The author lived in the Warwickshire village of Sarehole long before it became part of the city of Birmingham.

It is believed that the name derives from the “Cofa’s Tree”, a tree which grew at a crossroads which later became the site of Coventry Castle and is now Broadgate. So where local coventrians now shop, the name sake used to sit.

It's believed Paul McCartney was stopped for speeding on Fletchamstead Highway in Coventry on July 22, 1968. He was driving an Aston Martin and did not appear in court but was fined £15.

The legend has it that Coventry was the birthplace of St. George, the dragon slayer and patron saint of England. Britain's car industry was founded by Daimler Motors in a disused Coventry cotton mill in 1896. 

William Shakespeare was said to have jilted a Coventry woman on the eve of their wedding to marry Anne Hathaway.

The City has a rich motoring heritage, which can be traced back to 1896 when Henry Lawson founded the Daimler Motor Company and from this, a factory called The Motor Mills which gave us the first British car.

Although there are various theories of the origin of the name, the most widely accepted is that it was derived from Cofa's tree; derived from a Saxon landowner called Cofa, and a tree which might have marked either the centre or the boundary of the settlement.

The name Coventry is believed to have derived from the Anglo-Saxon word Cofantreo or Cofa's Tree. Its rise to prosperity began when Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and his wife Lady Godiva founded a Benedictine monastery here in 1043. Its now the 10th largest City in England and was founded before Birmingham and Leicester.

Coventry once had the only unfortified royal palace outside London. The surviving gatehouse is the oldest building in Britain to be used as a register office.