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Its roots are much older, though, for it straddles the Roman Fosse Way, which cuts a course straight as a die from Cirencester through to Leicestershire.
To the right of the photograph is a row of uninteresting 19th/20th-century houses; to the left, and of an earlier era, is a three-story, three-bay brick farmhouse, so common in Leicestershire villages.
Leicestershire farmers took their produce to the 17th century Bell Inn for delivery by coach to London, where the cheese became known as Stilton.
remains in post office use, and the other buildings have new plastic windows; but stopping the long view, without being intrusive, is a new estate of houses, slowly, slowly changing the character of Leicestershire's
The village grew up in the Leicestershire coalfields, along with its neighbours Coalville, Ellistown and Bagworth.
The village grew up in the Leicestershire coalfields, along with its neighbours Coalville, Ellistown and Bagworth.
Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon
The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.
Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon
This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common over southern Leicestershire.
George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of Hawksmoor churches of London with Leicestershire
This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other
We are now in the Lias clay country along the Leicestershire boundary.
George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of Hawksmoor churches of London with Leicestershire
He also designed the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum (1837), now part of the Leicester University campus.
We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.
He also designed the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum (1837), now part of the Leicester University campus.
This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common over southern Leicestershire.
His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column.
His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column.
