Village History

The Village has been very lucky to have had a historian living with us for so many years. The late Joan Stevenson compiled the Timeline from 1241 until 2000.

A new Timeline commencing 2000. is under construction. If you know of anything to be included, please let the Site Administrator know.

Following a public meeting held in the Village Hall in February 2009 with Charnwood Borough Council Dr. R. G. Lowe published these notes with regard to the Conservation Area. They clearly set out the origins of this area.

We will also be adding photographs of people and events gone by. Here again, if you have anything to be included, please let us know. We can scan your photographs without harming them.

The records for All Saints Church show the Clergy from 1537 the year when Lady Jane Grey was born. The writer is in contact with the relatives of some of these people and information and photographs will gradually be added. These are the Clergy who have their names inscribed at the back of the Church. There has of course been other Clergy over the years who have regularly officiated at All Saints and these are also being recorded. Grateful thanks also to Janet Neaverson for supplying such a wealth of information from the Village Archives.

Obituaries originally published in the Church Magazine years ago or the present Village Magazine are now being placed here.

All Saints Church Graveyard

was surveyed in 1981 by Alfred 'Tommy' Thomson who lived with his wife Lucille on Groby Lane. He drew the outline of every gravestone and put them in a file which can be viewed in the back of the Church. In 2000 these pages were put on disc by Alan Iliffe the present Churchwarden. In 2009 these files were converted to PDF format by Pam McMorran Village website Editor and extracts from these records (in their original form) are shown below:-