The lesser pleasures of Tickencote

After visiting Tickencote church you naturally turn your attention to the village. It has a water mill on the Gwash - the Tickencote commun...

Holy Trinity, Teigh: Village church or Georgian country house?

Holy Trinity in the village of Teigh has an interior that feels as much like a Georgian country houses as a village church. Leicestershire &...

Rutland's finest: St Peter and St Paul, Tickencote

Tickencote begins with a bus shelter on a slip road of the A1. So unpromising a location does it look that it took some persuasion for the d...

Another Attenborough

I stood next to that David Attenborough in a Leicester pub back in the 80s. He had a pint of Bass and a curry in a bowl, just like me. But t...

Blimey, Twenty Years...

It's raining here in Leicestershire, and also a handful of miles away across the fields in Rutland. And then, staring out of the window ...

Rutland earthquake latest

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