Fleckney Church St Nicholas
The large village of Fleckney about 8 miles south-east of Leicester and 7 miles north of Market Harborough has a population of around 4,700 according to the 2001 census. It has grown rapidly during the last century and although most of the village is modern there are structures dating to the 18th-19th centuries. Fleckney was in fact a far smaller village during most of its history. In the Domesday Book it is recorded that the...
Shackerstone Church St Peter
Fourteen miles west of Leicester and some 3 miles north-west of Market Bosworth is the pretty village of Shackerstone. The village is renowned for its Battlefield Line Railway which runs trains from here to Bosworth Field where in 1485 Richard III was killed. The village also has the Ashby Canal running around the village to the north. In the first week of September the village hosts the Shackerstone Festival which brings the canal,...
Great Glen Church St Cuthbert
Some seven miles south-east of Leicester is the large village of Great Glen which has a population (in 2001) of around 3,200. The village lies in a valley (hence the name) of the River Sence with ground rising either side. After the Norman Conquest the manors of Great Glen passed through many hands and at one point was held by William de Zouche and then the Martell family. In 1140 Ralph Butler granted the church of Great Glen to...
Brooksby Church St Michael & All Angels
Nine miles north-east of Leicester is the church of St Michael set in the pretty grounds of Brooksby Hall. The area was settled by the Danes and much later Brooksby Hall became the home of the powerful Villiers family who are first mentioned at Brooksby in 1235 but are of Norman descent and probably arrived in 1066 with King William. There was a village around the church but it disappeared after the Black Death decimated the village...
Wigston Parva St Mary
This small hamlet of around 30 people is very near to the county boundary of Warwickshire. It is 12 miles south-east of Leicester and its nearest neighbour is Sharnford. Although it is a ‘Wigston’ it is not near its larger namesakes and the only way into the village is a single track road from the B4114 near Smockington Hollow very near to the Fosse Way. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as...
Cranoe Church St Michaels
Founded in the 12th century this is a real gem of a church which is situated 5 miles north of Market Harborough. Built on the side of a hill it gives pretty views south into the valley and farmland and over to Langton Caudle Hill. Cranoe is a very small village and perhaps should be classed as a hamlet, the population has always been small but in the last couple of century’s there have been many houses which have disappeared,...
Blaby Church All Saints
Blaby lies 5 miles south of Leicester in the district of the same name. It is a large village of 6,500 people near to Whetstone and Countesthorpe with Wigston to the north and the suburbs of Leicester. It does have a ‘old village’ conservation area near the church which is attractive, there is the 15th century Bakers Arms which used to be a Yeoman’s house and the old village schools. Originally a Danish settlement,...
Stretton en le Field Church St Michael
This very small hamlet of around 36 people (according to the 2001 census) originally was in Derbyshire, when the county lines were redrawn in 1897 it then ended up in Leicestershire. It is approximately 7 miles south-west of Ashby de la Zouch and some 19 miles west of Leicester. Mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Stretone’ and belonging to Henry De Ferrers (we have met him before on our travels) the church is...
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