(c) Warwickshire County Council 2003		Camp Hill Hall, 1928

Camp Hill was probably built by the Craddock family in the Elizabethan style on the site of an old Roman camp. When William Craddock, the wealthiest man in Nuneaton at the time, died in 1833 the house passed through the family until the 1860s when Arthur C. Prettyman was in residence.

Mr Prettyman later resided at Haughley Park, near Stowmarket. Camp Hill was subsequently owned by Richard Ramsden in the 1870s. He later lived at Chadwick Manor near Solihull.

By the 1880s it had been purchased by Mr and Mrs Henry Stubbs. Henry Senior died on 27 October 1916, whilst his wife continued to live there until her death in the 1920s. In 1928 the contents were offered for sale after which the house stood empty until demolition in 1934. The grounds and surrounding area had been bought by the Borough Council for council housing in 1912.

Subsequently an extensive housing estate was built at Camp Hill, largely housing the influx of miners from the north of England who came to work at Nuneaton's thriving collieries in the early Twentieth century. Following the death of the mining industry in the area, the estate went into decline, but is currently the focus of a multi-million pound regeneration project. The Stubbs' legacy lives on in the area with the local pool being named Stubbs' Pool.
 

Historical text (c) Peter Lee 2003