Tanworth In Arden Warwickshire 100313

Tanworth In Arden Warwickshire 100313 

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Tanworth In Arden is a small village located in the county of Warwickshire England.  It is located south east of Birmingham. The population of the parish was 3017.

Tanworth was the childhood home of folk musician Nick Drake and his sister the actress Gabrielle Drake.  Nick Drakes gravestone. The epitaph reads "Now we rise/ and we are everywhere" from his song "From the morning"  

The grave of nine times world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood MBE, Gm and his daughter Michelle, who were both killed in a car accident at Portway in 1981, are also to be found here. An annual motorcycle run is held every March from the former Norton Motorcycle factory in Tanworth.

The boxer "Gentleman" Jack Hood was the licensee of the Bell public house, displaying above the bar the Lonsdale Belt that he won on the 31st May 1926. (The belt was sold by his daughter in 2011)

The village was also the filming location for the fictional village Kings Oak from the British television series Crossroads between 1970 and 1988.