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Smeeton Westerby Trail
- Smeeton House START
- The Elms
- Corner House, Mill Lane
- The King’s Head
- Sub Post Office
- Springfield Farm
- Main Street
- Village Hall
- Rose Cottage, Debdale Lane
- Farmhouse
- Blacksmith’s Lane
- 33 Main Street
- The Bank
- 62 Main Street
- Main Street Wall
- Beaker Close
- Stattis Fair area
- 53 Main Street
- 63 Main Street
- Westerby House
- Smeeton & Westerby border
- Christ Church
- Pit Hill Allotments
- Ivy Cottage, Gumley Road
- Smeeton Terrace
- Apple Tree Cottage
- Highfields
- Smeeton Farm
- Rose Cottage
- Footpath detour
- Debdale Wharf
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Kibworth Harcourt Trail
- Coach & Horses Inn START
- Raitha’s Restaurant (formerly Rose & Crown)
- Main Street
- 10 Main Street
- 15 Main Street
- 16 – 18 Main Street
- The Barn at rear of 25 Main Street
- 20 Main Street
- 24 & 31 Main Street
- 28 Main Street
- Harcourt Terrace
- The Munt (Kibworth Castle)
- Turnpike Route
- 51-53 Leicester Road
- Paddocks Farm
- Congregational Chapel
- The Manse
- The Limes
- Priory Farm
- Boboli Restaurant – (formerly Three Horse Shoes)
- Manor Farmhouse
- 78 Main Street
- The Slang
- Cross Pump
- Jubilee Green
- The Village Cross
- The Old House
- The Old Barn
- Joiners Cottage
- The City
- Kibworth Harcourt Windmill
- Former Land Army Hostel
- Former Harcourt House
- Rector’s Plantation
- Lychgate & Cemetery
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Kibworth Beauchamp Trail
- Coach & Horses Inn START
- Grey House, Church Road
- 30 Church Road
- St Wilfrid’s Church
- The Villas
- Station Hollow
- Former Railway station (Isabel Lane)
- The Pharmacy
- The Railway Arms
- Village Hall
- Stuart Court
- Old School Surgery
- Former Infants’ School, Paget Street
- The Bank
- 33 High Street
- The Manor House, 30 High Street
- Cross Bank House, High Street
- Lantern House, 4 High Street
- Former Gas Works
- Thatched Cottage, Weir Road
- Barrack Yard
- Tudor Cottage
- Smeeton Road
- Smeeton Court
- Clock Tower
- 36 High Street
- Mud Wall
- St Wilfrid’s Hall
- Methodist Chapel, School Road
- Kibworth Grammar School Hall
- Old Grammar School
- Former Railway Sidings
- Ridge & Furrow
- Little Lebanon
- Navvies Row, Leicester Road
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Unlike any before it, this was not the story of Kings and Queens and Lords and Ladies, but a history of ordinary people as told through collections of old documents and memories. The series was based around the ancient parish of Kibworth in the Gartree hundred, which today comprises three villages: Kibworth Harcourt, Kibworth Beauchamp and Smeeton Westerly.
The project began for the villages on a weekend in July 2009 with the Big Dig, organised by Michael’s production company (MayaVision International) and co-ordinated by Dr Carenza Lewis, who, with local archaeologists, worked alongside over 150 volunteers to dig 55 one metre square test pits in their gardens and recorded everything they found as they worked their way back through time to the Roman period.
One of the pits, dug in the corner of the car park of The Coach & Horses pub on the A6, where the team were based throughout the weekend, produced one of the most interesting artefacts – a tiny fragment of bone comb from the DarkAges. Moving between the national and the local narratives, Michael and the production team filmed until October 2010 to set the lives of the ordinary people from the three villages in the context of great events: from the Viking invasions and the Norman Conquest to the Industrial Revolution and the two World Wars.
Fittingly, the series finished in September 2010 with the burial of a time capsule in The Coach & Horses’ car park by Michael Wood and one-time landlord and his wife, Andrew and Beverley Southerden.
