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Buckminster
Buckminster is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the Melton (borough), Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. The total population of the civil parish was 356 at the 2011 census. It is on the B676 road, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 4 miles west of the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 at Colsterworth. The parish is located in the north-east of the county, on the border with Lincolnshire. Nearby places are Coston, Leicestershire, Coston, Wymondham, Leicestershire, Wymondham and Sproxton, Leicestershire, Sproxton in Leicestershire, and Stainby over the border in Lincolnshire. Sewstern Lane, which forms the parish boundary and the county boundary with Lincolnshire is part of the modern Viking Way. The village is noted for its autumnal colours, with many trees in the grounds and on the perimeter of Buckminster Park, on the village green, behind the houses of The Crescent and along the ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of St John The Baptist, Buckminster
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The Church of St John the Baptist is a church in Buckminster, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building. History The church consists of a nave, chantry chapel, tower with spire and 6 bells, chancel and north and south aisles. The bells date from 1657, 1649, 1691, 1778, 2 date from 1873 and 1 from 1874. The spire was struck by lightning in 1841 but was repaired 2 years later and restored in 1894. The tower has a beacon chimney. There is a rood stair near the chancel arch. The church was restored in 1883. There is a family mausoleum to the Dysart family, built by Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart. The mausoleum is Grade II* listed. References Buckminster Buckminster Buckminster is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the Melton (borough), Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern. The total population of the civil parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sewstern
Sewstern is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Buckminster, in the Melton (borough), Melton district of east Leicestershire, England. It lies just south of Buckminster, with which it shares a primary school, situated between the two villages. It is 9 miles east of Melton Mowbray, 10 miles south of Grantham and 4 miles from the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 at Colsterworth. It is the easternmost village in Leicestershire. Housing Many of Sewstern’s houses are built in local limestone. Almost all are individual, and indicate a village which has grown organically. Modern development is modest. Some houses are owned by the Buckminster Estate and let to tenants, while others are privately owned. Several houses have stables, and some have a paddock to the rear, with these facilities and the quiet roads through the village appealing to those with equestrian interests. ''Population'' The 1931 census was the last to enumerate Sewstern separately, when it had a pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower (1766–1833)
William Manners Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower (19 May 1766 – 11 March 1833), known as Sir William Manners, Bt, between 1793 and 1821, was a British nobleman and Tory politician. Background Born William Manners, he was the eldest son of John Manners and Louisa Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart. On 12 January 1793, at the age of 26, he was created a Baronet, of Hanby Hall in the County of Lincoln. On his mother's succession to the earldom in 1821, he was styled Lord Huntingtower, and adopted the surname of Talmash or Tollemache. Political career Huntingtower was known for his high-handed manipulation of the Parliamentary vote in Ilchester in Somerset. He owned most of the borough, and represented it from 1803 to 1804 and 1806–1807. In 1818 his candidates, one of whom was his son, were not elected, and he had the workhouse pulled down. A petition to Parliament stated: Parliament offered no amelioration. In the severe winter of 1828–1829, he engaged in a large public relief p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckminster Estates
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart DL (3 March 1859 – 22 November 1935) in the Peerage of Scotland, was also a Baronet (cr.1793) in the Baronetage of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Rutland (1881–1906), and Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. Early life and family William Tollemache was the eldest son of a controversial father, William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, who had accrued huge debt on the strength of his anticipated, but unfulfilled, inheritance. William had three elder half-sisters by his father's previous relationship with a servant, Elizabeth Acford. He also had three elder sisters by Huntingtower's wife and first cousin, Katherine Elizabeth Camilla Burke. His father subsequently resumed relations with Acford, and William and his sisters gained two younger half-brothers. After 1860, William gained four more siblings, two half-brothers and two half-sisters, from his father's later relationship with Emma Dibble. Dysart Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stainby
__NOTOC__ Stainby is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from the A1 road, east from the Viking Way and the Leicestershire border, and south from Grantham. Stainby is nominally in the civil parish of Gunby and Stainby , although the parish is now administered as part of the ''Colsterworth district parishes''. Stainby had been a parish in its own right until 1931. Adjacent villages include Buckminster, North Witham, Colsterworth, Gunby, Sewstern and Skillington. Stainby is on the B676 road which runs between Melton Mowbray (Buckminster Road) and Colsterworth (Colsterworth Road). The road is frequented by heavy goods vehicles from the nearby industrial estate at Sewstern and by vehicles heading from the Midlands towards East Anglia; an alternative route is through Wymondham and South Witham. Stainby is recorded in the 1086 ''Domesday Book'' as "Stigandebi". The remains of a Motte, probably associated with the former Manor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wymondham, Leicestershire
Wymondham (pronounced, phonetically, ) is a village in the Borough of Melton in Leicestershire, England. It is part of a civil parish which also covers the nearby hamlet of Edmondthorpe. The parish has a population of 623, increasing to 632 at the 2011 census. It is close to the county boundaries with Lincolnshire and Rutland, nearby places being Garthorpe, Teigh (in Rutland) and South Witham South Witham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,533. It is situated south of Grantham, 10 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 10 miles ... (in Lincolnshire). Description The village church is St Peter's; the pub is the Berkeley Arms. There is a windmill that has been converted into a visitor attraction with tea room and craft shops. A part-time mobile Post Office visits the village twice a week. Wymondham has a primary school and a pre-school group. There is also a larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Of Melton
Melton is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Melton Mowbray. Other settlements include Asfordby and Bottesford, Leicestershire, Bottesford. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 50,376. Melton is a rural area in the north-east part of Leicestershire and at the heart of the East Midlands. It is the 10th smallest district in England by population. The main activities of the district are centred on the single market town of Melton Mowbray which had a population of 27,158 at the 2011 census. There are some 70 small villages within the surrounding rural area and the area of the district is 481.38 km2. History It was formed in 1974, from the Melton Mowbray Urban District and the Melton and Belvoir Rural District. The council offices on ''Nottingham Road'' burnt down on 30 May 2008. Across the road were situated the main offices of the East Midlands Regional Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sproxton, Leicestershire
Sproxton () is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Melton in Leicestershire, England, close to the border with Lincolnshire. It has approximately 80 occupied dwellings (2021) and a population of 480, rising to 658 (including Coston, Saltby and Stonesby) at the 2011 census. The village and civil parish are not coterminous; the parish includes the villages of Sproxton, Saltby, Stonesby, Bescaby, and the former RAF Saltby. The River Eye runs through the parish. Nearby places are Waltham on the Wolds, Croxton Kerrial, Coston, Buckminster, and Skillington (in Lincolnshire). ThViking Wayruns close by. Nearby is Sproxton Quarry Site of Special Scientific Interest. The 14th-century parish church of St Bartholomew, extended and restored in 1882 by architect Henry Woodyer, is a Grade II* listed building. There is evidence of Norman building in the west wall of the south aisle and the tower is 13th-century. The top part of the tower was rebuilt in the restoration of 1882 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Way
The Viking Way is a long distance trail in England running between the Humber Bridge in North Lincolnshire and Oakham in Rutland. History The route was officially opened on Sunday 5 September 1976 at Tealby, by the Deputy Chairman of Lincolnshire County Council; it was to be opened by the chairman, John Hedley-Lewis, but he was ill, and died the following December. Hedley-Lewis was President of the local Ramblers' Associations, and a memorial stile was made for him on the route at Stenwith, a half-mile north of the ''Rutland Arms'' in Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir. The Countryside Commission recognised the significance of the Viking Way as a high quality long distance walk linking other major routes in Eastern England, these being the Yorkshire Wolds Way at the northern end, the Hereward Way and Macmillan Way from Oakham and indirectly via the Hereward Way, the Jurassic Way from Stamford and the southern end of the Peddars Way from Thetford. Most of the route is designated as par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melton (borough)
Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its main town, Melton Mowbray. Other settlements include Asfordby and Bottesford. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 50,376. Melton is a rural area in the north-east part of Leicestershire and at the heart of the East Midlands. It is the 10th smallest district in England by population. The main activities of the district are centred on the single market town of Melton Mowbray which had a population of 27,158 at the 2011 census. There are some 70 small villages within the surrounding rural area and the area of the district is 481.38 km2. History It was formed in 1974, from the Melton Mowbray Urban District and the Melton and Belvoir Rural District. The council offices on ''Nottingham Road'' burnt down on 30 May 2008. Across the road were situated the main offices of the East Midlands Regional Assembly before it was abolished in 2010. Food The borou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1 Road (Great Britain)
The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, at . It connects Greater London, London, the capital of England, with Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It passes through or near North London, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Baldock, Letchworth, Letchworth Garden City, Biggleswade, St Neots, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, Retford, Doncaster, York, Pontefract, Wetherby, Ripon, Darlington, Durham, England, Durham, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth, Northumberland, Morpeth, Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed. It was designated by the Department for Transport, Ministry of Transport in 1921, and for much of its route it followed various branches of the historic Great North Road (Great Britain), Great North Road, the main deviation being between Boroughbridge and Darlington. The course of the A1 has changed where towns or villages have been bypass (road), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830. The so-called great Georgian cities of the British Isles were Edinburgh, Bath, pre-independence Dublin, and London, and to a lesser extent York and Bristol. The style was revived in the late 19th century in the United States as Colonial Revival architecture and in the early 20th century in Great Britain as Neo-Georgian architecture; in both it is also called Georgian Revival architecture. In the United States the term "Georgian" is generally used to describe all buildings from the period, regardless of style; in Britain it is generally restricted to buildings that are "architectural in intention", and have stylistic characteristics that are typical o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
