Warwick is a beautiful English county town , and its medieval shape is still visible even if its city walls have all but gone. During Wars of the Roses the earls of Warwick were hugely important powerbrokers. The bear, chained to a tree stump was their symbol, which is why to this day so many English pubs have the name of either The Bear or The Bear and Ragged Staff. The most powerful of all Earls of Warwick, Richard Neville (1428 – 1471) deposed two Plantagenet kings, which is why he became known as Warwick The Kingmaker.
Start this walk in front of a very different kind of warrior king, Randolph Turpin, whose statue stands in front of the Rose & Crown Pub. Turpin was born in nearby Leamington Spa in 1928
