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Warwickshire's buildings generally reflect a comfortable, well-to-do feel. Stratford-on-Avon is
an excellent place to see the buildings of a late medieval and Georgian country town. The great
medieval fortresses of Warwick and Kenilworth Castles are among the leading exemplars of their
type. The superb range of country houses and landscaped gardens extends from the medieval
perfection of Baddesley Clinton, and picturesque Compton Wynates to the 18th
century sophistication of Packington Hall. Birmingham and Coventry are major cathedral cities
(though neither is anything like the conventional picture of an English cathedral). The 19th-century buildings of Birmingham, religious, civic and commercial, are outstanding in their
quality and variety, while Coventry is one of the most imaginative examples of a 20th century
city centre rebuilt after wartime destruction.
