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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...

One of the earliest mentions of Seagrave (previously Segrave) is in the Domesday Book where it is listed amongst the lands in the Wapentake of Goscote given to Henry de Ferrers by William I - a Wapentake...

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...

With its open views across the Vale of Belvoir, Redmile is remembered as the birthplace of Leicestershire cricketer, Frederic Geeson, and as the home of George Bishop, clockmaker extraordinaire, who moved to the village in 1762 with...

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...

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....

Six Hills is an area that lies seven miles to the north west of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. The name is a corruption of Segshill, so the real meaning of the place name is the high ground...

The history of Rearsby begins around the 9th century when incoming Danes established it. The village remained pretty much an enclosed farming community until the end of the 18th century when Enclosure Acts meant that living off...

Owthorpe was once the seat of the Hutchinson family. Colonel Hutchinson was a leading Parliamentarian in the English Civil War and one of the signatories to the death warrant of Charles 1st. Come the Restoration, the Colonel escaped execution...

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,...