Features
There is a fine Pack Horse Bridge, which is scheduled as an Ancient Monument, over the River Tame on the road to Minworth. It was built by Bishop John Vesey of Sutton Coldfield in 1520.
Water Orton today has a small High Street with a variety of shops and take aways, two pubs, a Primary School, two other Churches, Doctor and Dental surgeries, two Parks, a Cricket Club (Water Orton CC), a Rugby Club (Old Saltleians RFC) two amateur football sides, Water Orton United who play in the Coronation league division 1 their home pitch is the local park. And of course Orton Rangers who are by far the most successful, with numerous trophies spanning twenty years. And a parish hall, which has recently been rebuilt and renamed 'The Link'. In addition, Water Orton is home to the amateur dramatics company, (Company of the Curtain), who produced all their productions in the Water Orton Parish Hall until December 2008. They now continue to produce plays in the neighbouring village of Curdworth. As well as rail services both in the village, and a short distance away in Coleshill, there is a half-hourly, switching to hourly in the evenings, bus service (number 90; formerly 590) to Birmingham and Coleshill. Some new housing was built during 2003 and 2004. A carnival is held every summer. A car boot sale is held on Sunday mornings during the summer, just off the road towards Castle Bromwich. Recently, anti-HS2 campaigners have been very active in the village, and have formed the Water Orton Stop HS2 Action Group.
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“Art is the child of Nature; yes,
Her darling child, in whom we trace
The features of the mother’s face,
Her aspect and her attitude.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)