Finham
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Finham is a mainly residential suburb in the most southern part of the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England. Finham shares its northern boundary along the A45 with Styvechale to the north, and part of its southeastern boundary is shared with Baginton, Warwickshire, which is a village situated to the south-east of Coventry.
Finham is approximately triangular in shape; its northern boundary is, for the most part, along the Kenpas Highway (A45); its south-eastern boundary is, for the most part, along the A46, and its south-western boundary is, for the most part, along Green Lane. The grounds of the two schools on the west of Green Lane, Finham Park School and Finham Junior School, have been incorporated into Finham. The majority of the land to the west of Green Lane is farmland and is part of Warwickshire.
Some of the road names in Finham are known as the "Alphabet roads" because of the letters they begin with: Anchorway Road, Bathway Road, Crossway Road, Daleway Road, Erithway Road, Fosseway Road and Gretna Road. Handcross Grove, Ilfracombe Grove, Jedburugh Grove and Kingscote Grove are also present as offshoots of Gretna Road.
Located near by is Wainbody Wood, through which the Coventry to Leamington (passing through Kenilworth) railway line runs.
Finham Park School is a Mathematics and Computer college and also a teacher training school.
Finham Sewage Works is to the South of Finham in Warwickshire. It was used in the late 1960s in the well known film The Italian Job starring Michael Caine. The underground concrete piping was used for the scenes where several Minis raced through the tunnel. Adjacent to this is the Finham Golf Course which is to the southeast of Finham in Warwickshire.
[edit] St Martins-in-the-Fields Church
The local church, St Martins-in-the-Fields, was built in 1938. It was recently refurbished and a hallway was built leading into the main church. The refurbished church and buildings were opened to the public on 17 September 2006.
