Laughton Church St Luke
Situated some 5 miles west of Market Harborough in the south-east of the county the small village of Laughton is recorded in 2001 as having a population of only 80. The Laughton Hills to the south of the village rise to over 550ft and there are some good walks around the area. Its nearest neighbours are Gumley and Moseley with also Foxton and Saddington Reservoir to the north nearby. The village was recorded in the Domesday Book of...
Oadby St Peters
Oadby has two churches in the parish, one is the modern St Paul’s which is already on the website and St Peter’s is the original medieval building which has been here since the 1300’s and most likely replaced an earlier structure. The town of Oadby is split in two by the busy A6 and is a suburb of Leicester to the south-east. The population of around 23,000 has grown due to the large scale housing developments that...
Oadby St Pauls
Now this is going to be an usual entry as this is a modern church (27 years old) that lies to the north of the busy A6 in Oadby. It has no history as such, and it is sited in the middle of a large new housing estate. Some of you may be thinking why this is on the website? Well although St Paul’s is not the official Parish church (that is St Peter’s) it does play an important part in the parish. The busy A6 that splits...
Knaptoft Church St Nicholas
Today Knaptoft is a small hamlet of a few houses and farms in the Harborough district some ten miles south of Leicester. It was once a much larger village but most of it was deserted by the 17th century. The only visible remains from the original village are some farm buildings, the medieval fish ponds to the south (restored 1976-82 and now commercial fishing) and the ruined parish church. You can make out earthworks around the east...
Bottesford & Lutterworth Churches Google Inside
Two more churches have had the Google Business Photo package from us and they went on-line this week. Both of them are important UK churches. St Mary’s at Lutterworth has the Wycliffe connection and St Mary’s at Bottesford has the fantastic chancel filled with monuments to the Earls and Dukes of Rutland. We ensured that for both tours the most important parts of the churches were included. These tours will be added to the...
Richard Buckley Event
Richard Buckley of Leicester Univeristy has been on TV and in the press with regard to the ongoing Richard III dig in Leicester. On Tuesday October 9th at Narborough Parish Centre (on Desford Road) at 7:30PM, Richard will be giving a presentation on the Highcross Excavations to the Narborough and Littlethorpe Heritage Society – and I am hopeful we may get some updates on the Richard III dig. This talk is one of our highlights of 2012...
St Mary de Castro Walk Inside!
We have had some excellent publicity with the feature in the Leicester Mercury about our recent Google Business Photo tour for the St Mary de Castro church in Leicester. They need urgent repairs to the spire and it seemed an ideal opportunity to help with the new technology from Google. You can read more here – Leicester Mercury Link. If you would like to help with the Spire Appeal or make a donation please contact them on...
Time marches on
Do not panic! I have not forgotten the Church site and updates I will be starting again shortly. Due to certain changes in my work I have had to take some time out and concentrate on some other issues, but all is well and I expect to start again within the next week. The main task as before is to move everything from the old site and concentrate on the new. I went to Crete a few weeks ago, seems like months already. Managed to visit...
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