Showing posts with label Gumley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gumley. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Mercia rediscovered: The Synod of Gumley and Brixworth church

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Reviewing Max Adams's The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State AD 630-918 for the London Review of Book...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Fighting breaks out at Kibworth vs Gumley cricket match in 1873

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At Kibworth library today in connection with a thing, I came across this report from the  Leicester Chronicle (2 August 1873): The cricket ...
Friday, March 29, 2024

BOOK REVIEW Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood

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We think we know the history of the English country house in the 20th century. Their heyday was in the Edwardian era, but death duties and t...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

Harborough District Walking Festival, 26-29 May 2022

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"Come and discover an often overlooked part of England," says the website for this month's Harborough District Walking Festiva...
Wednesday, July 01, 2020

The legacy of Saxon Leicestershire

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Time for the third of Jim Butler's Hidden Histories videos. This one explores the legacy of Saxon Leicestershire, through archaeological...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Foxton Locks in the sun

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Living in Market Harborough, my instinct on a hot day is to head for Foxton Locks. I did it today and even managed a mad-dogs-and-Engli...
Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Gumley's archaeology from above

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Having recently spent a couple of afternoons exploring the landscape around Gumley, I was pleased to come across these two tweets by  Jošt H...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

Remains of a medieval village and warren at Gumley

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Gumley Hall was demolished in 1964. It stood on what is now a large open space between the church and the stables at the top of the hill...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Finding the Motte at Gumley

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Gumley, I wrote, is historic and a little mysterious . So I went back there. I found the Motte, which some say is an early Norm...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Gumley: Historic and a little mysterious

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Gumley lies eleven miles south-east of Leicester at the eastern end of a ridge of hills which runs from Husbands Bosworth through Mowsley...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Gumley is Leicestershire's Bishop's Castle

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I have worked out why I like Gumley so much: it reminds me of Bishop's Castle in Shropshire. Both settlements have a long main stree...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Waiting for the end of an over at Gumley

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When you follow the lane past Saddington reservoir you climb a wooded hill and emerge above the village of Gumley. On that high ground...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Saddington reservoir, the 44 bus and Richard Jefferies

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What to do this Saturday? Now we have reasonable weather again, a country walk sounded like a good idea. One by water even more so. But w...