Temple Herdewyke

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Temple Herdewyke
latitude= 52.166
longitude= -1.44
civil_parish=
population =
shire_district= Stratford-on-Avon
shire_county= Warwickshire
region= West Midlands
constituency_westminster= Stratford-on-Avon
post_town= SOUTHAM
postcode_district = CV47
postcode_area= CV
dial_code= 01926
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Temple Herdewyke is a village in Warwickshire, England now largely incorporated into the British Army station DSDA Kineton.

The Temple Herdewyke Village

Village of Temple Herdewyke are situated in a rural location, at the foot of the Burton Dassett Hills. It is approximately ten miles from Banbury and Leamington Spa, and about fourteen miles from Stratford upon Avon. All these places offer a good range of shops and facilities, including theatres, cinema and sporting venues. Birmingham is a forty minutes drive and London an hour away on the M40. It is central to many historical places with beautiful countryside and the Cotswolds half an hour away.

The Station has an excellent gym, with an astro turf pitch, badminton, squash and basketball courts. It has a great range of weights, aerobic machines and a sauna. There are also tennis courts and a small boating and fishing lake along with a small golf driving range. There is a pre-school, post box, NAAFI Spar Shop, Library / Interactive Learning Centre, usual Mess facilities and also Chadwicks Juniors Ranks and Families Club. For children there are limited facilities with Youth Club and Brownies held at the Cromwell Centre within the Station on alternate nights of the week. The Scout Group is held a couple of miles away in the neighbouring village of Lighthorne Heath. There is a Drop In Centre / Thrift Shop in Temple Herdewyke within the SFA estate.

Temple Herdewyke a excellent opportunity to enjoy village life!

The Village itself is in a tidy and well looked after area, the homes are very well looked after and are very desirable. This is fast becoming an area to invest as property prices rise unlike most areas where the property prices are becoming to expensive for the average buyer.

The village is full of young professionals and is very friendly and is very peaceful to live in.

Temple Herdewyke and the Bible and the Templars Knights

According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was a miraculous golden chest that contained two sacred stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. If it existed as it is portrayed in the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant has to be one of the most extraordinary artifacts in history. It could raise storms, radiate divine fire, level city walls, smash chariots and destroy entire armies. Moreover, it could summon angels and even manifest the voice and presence of God.

The Ark of the Covenant was kept in Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem until it disappeared from history following the Babylonian invasion of the city in 597 BC. Biblical scholars, archaeologists and adventurers alike have spent years searching for the last resting place of the Ark, but until now its secret hiding place has remained one of history’s most enduring mysteries.

In The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant, Graham discovers evidence that this remarkable relic really existed and was discovered by the crusader knights, the Templars, during the Middle Ages and brought back to Europe. From the war-torn Middle East to the quiet British countryside, Graham follows an ancient trail of clues in search of the mysterious lost Ark.

"'Press Release

Has one of the Ten Commandment Tablets been found?"'

One of the stone tablets which were inscribed with the Ten Commandments may have been found in the center of England, according to a new book by British author Graham Phillips. His book The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant is published this month by Bear & Company of Vermont, USA.

According to the Bible, the Ten Commandments were inscribed on two stone tablets that were given to Moses by God on top of Mount Sinai. They were believed to have been written by God himself with the laws for the Israelites to follow. A special container was then made to carry them. This was the Ark of the Covenant, a fabulous golden chest that was later kept in Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem until it disappeared from history following the Babylonian invasion of the city in 597 BC.

“Biblical scholars, archaeologists and adventurers alike have spent years searching for the last resting place of the Ark,” says Phillips, “but until now its secret hiding place has remained one of history’s most enduring mysteries.”

Phillips, who has written other books concerning ancient mysteries, such as King Arthur and the Holy Grail, says that Ark was discovered in a cave near the ruins of the ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan by the crusaders, the Knights Templars, in the twelfth century. He also claims to have found evidence to suggest that it was later brought back to England when the crusaders were defeated by the Saracens.

“These Knights Templars came from Temple Herdewyke in the English county of Warwickshire,” says Phillips. “Just before their descendants were wiped out by the Black Death in the fourteenth century, they left a series of strange paintings on the walls of a church in nearby Burton Dassett which seem to have held clues to where they hid what they claimed to be the Ark.”

With two friends from America, Graham Russell, himself famous for being in the rock band Air Supply, and his wife, Hollywood actress Jodi, Graham Phillips traced what he believes was the location revealed in these paintings to an old holy well beside the road in the English village of Napton-on-the-Hill in Warwickshire.

“We have not yet managed to find the Ark, says Phillips, but we did discover a strangely inscribed stone slab which may have been one of the tablets it contained. It was found by Jodi, buried in the banks of a nearby stream. We think that it got there when the area around the well was dug up to make way for a new road in the 1940s.”

About an inch thick, a foot and a half long, and a foot wide, the sandstone slab is inscribed with what appear to be thirteen separate symbols, cut into the stone to a depth of about a quarter of an inch. It is at present being examined by experts in the USA. So far the symbols have defied translation and its age is difficult to determine. Nevertheless, it is made from a form of sandstone that comes from the mountain that Phillips identifies as Mount Sinai. “This is where the Ten Commandments are said to have been made,” says Phillips. “I don’t know whether they were actually made by God or not, but if I am right then this tablet could have been one of those that Moses brought down from the sacred mountain.”