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As the name suggests this is the main road from Coventry.It heads south from the village under the railway lines and passes the junction to Barnacle and continues towards Hawksbury and Aldermans Green.
As you approach from Coventry and go under the bridge houses greet you both sides,the majority of the houses on the right are a lot older than the ones on the left.As you reach a slight incline a large detached property is set back on the left and surrounded by trees.This house for many years owned by the Dawkins family of which Mrs May Dawkins was a well known character,her family were called Record and owned a farm at the top of the road,this was demolished in the 1960's.She and her husband were school teachers at junior and senior schools so many young people from the village had passed through their hands.During the summer I would tend her family graves in the church yard,they can be found via the entrance across from Church Street and follow the church yard path and they are on the right hand side.
Then passed Dawkins home there is a row of houses over 100 years old those opposite being built shortly after the war,that land being originally allotments.
Nowadays the road continues right to the top of the hill and finishes opposite the recreation ground,but prior to 1970 it only went as far as Chequer Street and Bedworth Road and was a T-junction and faced a house owned by the Ashley's also a well known village family.
It would be difficult today to see traffic using the old route as the junction to turn left on to Bedworth Road would have been very tight.
