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Bottesford is tucked away in the far north-eastern corner of Leicestershire, in the middle of the magnificent Vale of Belvoir.

At 700ft above sea-level, Tilton-on-the-Hill is one of the highest villages in High Leicestershire.

Apart from working in Leicestershire, he designed Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and was also employed on Ripon Minster, Yorkshire.

A collection of almost classic cars parked on both sides of the street issues a warning of things to come in the small towns around Leicestershire.

On the River Erewash, close to the confluence of the Trent with Leicestershire's River Soar, this Derbyshire town was bisected by the Erewash Canal in 1779 and made readily accessible by

Buildings from the last two hundred years adjoin each other in a rather odd and uneasy way in Leicestershire's second town.

Few buildings remain which pre-date the Enclosure Acts, effectively extinguishing the ties within rural communi- ties in much of Leicestershire, and indeed the Midland counties.

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

The red brick village, which has expanded to become interesting rather than beautiful, has excellent examples of Leicestershire vernacular, from the 17th-century Stuart House in Station Street to the

The road rises up from the south, past the parish church, to enter Ibstock, gateway to industrial north-west Leicestershire.

This road comes from Cold Overton, a fine Leicestershire village, on the hill just 2 miles away.

Stilton cheeses were first supplied for the landlord of the Bell by his sister-in-law from Leicestershire, and were infested with maggots.

The nearby coalmines were amongst the richest in the former Leicestershire coalfield.

This advertises the shop as an agent of Sketchley Dye Works, Hinckley (Leicestershire).

Still a going concern, Hinckley's busy market draws people from a wide area of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

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

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of

At this time, the Dukes of Rutland had virtually deserted the hall and removed themselves to their other estate at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire.

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