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Bottesford, a case of witches. Prior to the death of Francis, the Earl of Rutland’s second son in 1620, suspicion for this and other incidents fell on a three members of staff who were a mother and two...

Denton lies four miles west of Grantham, on the edge of the Vale of Belvoir. The underlying rock, of which many village houses are built, is Jurassic Ironstone and iron ore was quarried in the parish until the 1970s....

The villages first mention is back in the 1080s when was called Herdebi.

From the Iron Age to the current day, the village has always deemed to be agricultural in nature. However, it did take...

The rich flavour of our Autumn Homecoming jam reminded us of the village of Hoby, situated in the Wreake valley where the river meanders through unhurried villages lining its route on the way to the river Soar....

Old Dalby lies to the west of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, close to the Nottinghamshire border. The original settlement has Celtic origins but was under Danelaw during the ninth century when it acquired the name Wold Dalby,...

Saxelbye is a small, relatively isolated agricultural village located within a dip of the Leicestershire Wolds some three miles west of Melton Mowbray. Most of the village is a designated conservation area and on paying a visit...

This beautiful little village of around 300 dwellings is largely designated a conservation area. It was once the home of Colonel Francis Hacker and his wife, Isabell, who lived at Stathern Hall. During the English Civil War...

This citrus speciality carries the name Barnstone because it reminded us of the ups and downs of the historic Peverel family. Barnstone (previously known as Barnston) was once the home of Norman Knight, William Peverel, a favourite of William...

As the village’s name ends with a ‘by’, it denotes that it was a Danish settlement in the 9^th and 10^th centuries. There were many wells around the village, which helped the population grow and prosper. Two of these...