Fenny Drayton (formerly
Drayton-in-the-Clay) is a village in
Leicestershire, England, in the district of
Hinckley and Bosworth. It is near to the county border of Warwickshire and has a Coventry postcode. The village is just off the
A444 road, an old Roman road, north of
Nuneaton close to its crossroads with the
A5 (the
Roman road called
Watling Street). The hamlet is also crossed by another Roman road, and is found at the end of the scenic country lane of the Fenn Lanes. It is four miles from the village of
Stoke Golding, where King Henry VII was crowned immediately after the
Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The reinterment of King Richard III mortal remains on 21 March 2015 started along the Fenn Lanes near to the village of Fenny Drayton.