We are very grateful to Loughboro Arch&Hist Soc for inviting us to display our Nanpantan research at Old Rectory Museum. They are open most Saturdays 11am-3pm.

👉 Join us for a free online talk by Dr Jack Matthews, as he explains what a geopark is, and what UNESCO status could mean for Charnwood Forest.

📅 Monday 27 April, 7.30pm

🌐 Book your place now: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/free-o...

We are recruiting! We seek an Editor/Volunteer Coordinator to produce Historical Digests for 18 parishes in the Charnwood Forest Geopark, with funding thanks to Charnwood Forest Geopark and National Lottery Heritage Fund. Part-time, fixed term. See leicestershirehistory.co.uk?page_id=5488

👉 Join us for a free online talk by Dr Jack Matthews, as he explains what a geopark is, and what UNESCO status could mean for Charnwood Forest.

📅 Monday 27 April, 7.30pm

🌐 Book your place now: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/free-o...

Researching and writing it has been interesting and fascinating too, and not just the religious history. In #Loughborough much is utterly fascinating and incredibly complex. Even the Ordnance Survey struggled to cope with it in 1880s. The book also includes education, sport, charities, buildings ...

📍 Are you from the Whitwick, Thringstone, Agar Nook or Coaville area?

🌳 Looking to connect with nature?

🌐 Take at look at these upcoming Listening Wood workshops that we are supporting: www.charnwoodforest.org/listening-wo...

⛏️ There has been a quarry at Bardon Hill for at least 400 years.

📷 This photo, taken in 1910, shows how the quarried, hard, igneous rocks are overlain by layers of softer sandstones from the Triassic period (see left below trees)

©️ NERC

Atmospheric tree at last night's brilliant #Geopark in the Dark event. Second image is models of local fossils painted by children. Many thanks @charnwoodforest.bsky.social

Coming up, Heritage Hub 2026 at University of Leicester. We are looking forward to being there, sharing news of our activities and just talking local history and heritage

Hi Lynne, what a sad story. The excellent @vch-home.bsky.social VCH Staffs XII (not yet online) has 4 pp of info on Moat House. Became asylum c.1815 run by Robt Woody. In 1921 'asylum' was run by Edw Hollins who d. 1921, then sold to Dr Wm Lowson. Became country club in 1960s, various uses since.

Viewing talk by Simon Bradley for @visitchurches.bsky.social about Pevsner's county architectural guides. Key sources included VCH: “the information it contains is impeccable". Ongoing VCH work in turn benefits from Pevsner's work and its updates by Simon & others: thank you. @vch-home.bsky.social

A funerary monument in the Welford Cemetery, Leicester

The Vaughan City Explorers will meet for a bespoke guided walk around the Welford Cemetery on SUNDAY MARCH 22. Note that this visit COSTS £6. We will meet at the information centre at 12.30 for the 1pm start (note the time).

YOU GUYS!!! Hidden in this image is an intermediate technology--this is a STATIONARY SEMI-MECHANICAL haybind!! Its job was to compress the hay into a long, rectangular column. Note the women on either side hand-tying off bales, and one loading the hopper. These women were trail-blazers!

🌋 The rocks of Charnwood Lodge are famous for their volcanic blocks, likely deposited in debris flows from a nearby volcano.

📷 This photo was taken in 1896 by W. W. Watts. He would go on to become a fellow of The Royal Society and president of The Geological Society.

©️ NERC

I can recommend this. Susan has spent a long time studying place names in Charnwood, and is now working with us at Leics VCH, leading our latest project in Charnwood Geopark, thanks to funding from Charnwood Geopark and National Lottery Heritage Fund

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

#Skystorians - New to medieval and early modern #Palaeography? Looking to improve your skills? Then the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School - to be held in #Birmingham (rather that Keele, as previously), might just be for you.

Please share widely.

Charnwood Forest Geopark - a statement on dinosaurs:

It is self-evident looking around cities, towns and the smallest villages that there are places of worship no longer used by those that built them. 🗃️

Some, of course, are houses. Others remain in devotional use. Some examples from our volumes, supplemented by other information - a short thread 🧵

Help save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc❗️
We've started a crowdfunding campaign to ensure that a 3,000-year-old golden torc discovered last year near Harborough can be saved and brought back to the county - but we only have until mid-March to do it!

Visit

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

Gaddesby's fantastic, but so is Ashby Folville too, and I love the font. It's a freezing cold church in winter though.

They are beautiful. Reminded me of these (Ashby Folville, Leics). Ballflower added to square window to match the other?

Our next zoom talk. Booking info on the poster - all welcome.

🫏 Take a trip to our Sandham Bridge geosite, and discover this beautiful packhorse bridge.

🌐 Plan your visit now: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/san...

William Paget died in 1865. He founded a large hosiery business in Loughborough, was part owner of a coal mine & a corn milling business & farmed c.700 a. land in S. Notts. How long did it take to get probate? 3 weeks! 22 days to be precise, but one of those days was Christmas Day. How times change

The Generator: Stories and Memories - an oral history project supported by @heritagefunduk

We’ve captured the voices, recollections and experiences of those who studied, worked and created in the historic Packe Street building over the decades.

Layers of history revealed in the walls, floors + surfaces of our Art Deco building. each texture is a chapter in The Generator’s journey from power station> art college> community arts venue.

February Forum: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play - Leicester Vaughan College Miriam Gill shares how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of Coventry's missing Mystery Plays, the Drapers' play of the Last Judgement.

Our February Forum will be online, 15 Feb at 6.15pm. Dr Miriam Gill will be talking on ‘Tantalizing Fragments: Piecing Together Traces of a Lost Coventry Mystery Play’
To find out more👇
vaughan.coop/course/febru...

👍 Thank you to our fabulous volunteers who helped install a Geopark Information Hub in Woodhouse Eaves yesterday.

👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...