Goadby Church St John the Baptist
Goadby is a village and parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It is approximately 11 miles south-east of Leicester and 8 miles north of Market Harborough. It lies in some very pretty rural countryside typical of this part of Leicestershire. The 2001 population was recorded as 43 in 2001 so more a hamlet than a village. The Danes were here (like in so many villages in Leicestershire & Rutland) as Goadby as the suffix...
Gilmorton Church All Saints
Some 10 miles south of Leicester is the village of Gilmorton. It is recorded in the Domesday Book and has a population of around 900 people. There has been some modern development to the east of the village but the village still retains a rural charm. The name may derive from the Anglo-Saxon ‘gilden’ (or glyden) meaning golden, and ‘morton’, a town on the moor. There are some earthworks (raised mound and...
Swepstone Church St Peter’s
Some 4 miles south-west of Coalville and nearly 15 miles north-west of Leicester is the small parish of Swepstone that also includes Newton Burgoland, the population for the parish was 575 in 2001. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Scropestone and after the Norman Conquest the manor past to Henry de Ferrers, who was given 210 manors throughout Derbyshire & Leicestershire for his support during and after the battle,...
Willoughby Waterleys St Mary
The village of Willoughby Waterleys is approx 8 miles south of Leicester near to the villages of Peatling Magna and Ashby Magna. It lies in the district of Harborough and was originally known as Willoughby Waterless. The village consists of one street running north to south with several farms and some new housing developments mostly consisting of bungalows and large detached housing in a couple of cul-de-sacs. There is one pub the...
Bitteswell Church St Mary
Bitteswell is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire and is situated just to the north of Lutterworth, and in the 2001 census had a population of 454. It was also the site of RAF Bitteswell, an airfield used in the Second World War. Hawker Siddeley Aviation had a factory close by, where Vulcan bombers were built and maintained. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Betmeswelle and there was a...
Wardley Church St Botolph
This is s real gem of a church in my humble opinion, it does not have any grand monuments or significant features of architectural interest – but what it does have is plenty of character. If you are a ‘church-crawler’ you will know what I mean. All churches are special places, but some have that ‘something’ extra that you realize quite soon into your visit or when you think back to the church in question...
Slawston Church All Saints
Slawston lies eighteen miles south-east of Leicester, on the southern edge of the hills overlooking the valley of the Welland and adjoining the county boundary with Northamptonshire. The parish includes the deserted hamlet of Othorpe, formerly a chapelry of Slawston and has a total area of 1,501 acres. The parish occupies a promontory of higher ground jutting south-eastwards towards the Welland and bounded on the north-east and...
Egleton Church St Edmund
Just over a mile south-east from Oakham is the pretty little village of Egleton which had a population of only 79 in the 2001 census. The village is very near to Rutland Water and the Anglian Water Bird Watching Centre is accessed via the village. During the Domesday Survey the village is not mentioned but was one of the five ‘berewicks’ of the King’s manor of Oakham. These were outlying settlements attached to...
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