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Driving the Ironstone Ridge: The Alternative Vale of Belvoir Route 2026 from Leicester

Driving the Ironstone Ridge: The Alternative Vale of Belvoir Route 2026 from Leicester The Vale of Belvoir cuts a quiet seam through the East Midlands where Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire meet — a glacially carved corridor of ironstone villages and castle silhouettes that most drivers bypass on faster A roads […]

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Anglo-Saxon Stone Iconography: The Pre-Conquest Carvings of Breedon on the Hill near Leicester

Anglo-Saxon Stone Iconography: The Pre-Conquest Carvings of Breedon on the Hill near Leicester Perched on an outcrop of carboniferous limestone above the Leicestershire plain, the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill holds what is generally regarded as the largest surviving collection of Anglian carved […]

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