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71-516: Hugglescote is a village on the River Sence in North West Leicestershire , England. The village is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the centre of Coalville , and its built-up area is now contiguous with the town. Hugglescote and Donington le Heath were part of the parish of Ibstock until 1878, when they were formed into a separate civil parish . Against local belief, Hugglescote

142-416: A hammerbeam roof . The king post truss is used for simple roof trusses and short-span bridges. It is the simplest form of truss in that it is constructed of the fewest truss members (individual lengths of wood or metal). The truss consists of two diagonal members that meet at the apex of the truss, one horizontal beam that serves to tie the bottom end of the diagonals together, and the king post which connects

213-407: A transeptal south chapel and a central belltower over the crossing. The building was extended in 1887. The tower has a ring of eight bells, all cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough in 1900. St. John's is a Grade II* listed building . St. John's has an Elizabethan chalice dating from 1575 and a parish chest from the former chapel. The parish registers date from 1564. St. John's

284-463: A king post, but it is very different structurally: whereas the king post is in tension, usually supporting the tie beam as a truss, the crown post is supported by the tie beam and is in compression . The crown post rises to a crown plate immediately below collar beams which it supports; it does not rise to the apex like a king post. Historically a crown post was called a king post in England but this usage

355-424: A light sandy loam. In 1831 the number of houses was 127 and the population 683. Farmland in the township was enclosed in 1774. In 1945 this estate was sold by Brigadier C. L. O. Tayleur. By 1848 Donington and Hugglescote had a National School . It moved into a new building completed in 1862, and an infants' school was added in 1883. The 1862 and 1883 buildings are now Hugglescote Community Centre. Construction of

426-525: A mill fed by water from the Sence and discharging into the Anker. The tributary from Bagworth to Shackerstone may have had mills at the moated sites of Pickering Grange and Ibstock Grange. On Carlton Brook between Carlton and Market Bosworth was Bosworth Mill. Help-Out Mill fell out of use in the late 1960s. When Elijah T. Timms died in 1970, it ended a family association with the mill dating back to 1734. The name

497-504: A spring or stream In west Leicestershire, it seems to mean the stream issuing from a spring rather than the spring itself. The area of the headwaters of the Tweed would have been frequented by wild boar in Anglo-Saxon times. The other example of wella in the watershed is "Twitchell". Brook Farm , west of Stoke Golding takes its name from the unnamed stream running north towards the Tweed at

568-622: A stream from Coalville at Snibston and Sence Brook near the Manor House, Donington le Heath . Though it crosses hilly terrain, the rivers are crossed as small streams. The continuing communication along this line into Christian times is suggested by the shared unusual dedication of their churches to the Holy Rood. From Bagworth , it runs close to the watershed. perhaps through Cadeby or slightly further east through Newbold Verdon , to Barwell and Hinckley . A road from Bagworth to Polesworth along

639-472: Is believed to derive from the reliable water supply compared with mills on the branch streams. The overcast waterwheel was replaced by a water turbine in 1902. Temple Mill was first mentioned in 1279 and continued operating till after World War II. Sibson Mill is remarkable in being on the Sence, not its own Saint river, some distance from Sibson village. Sheepy Mill is mentioned in the Domesday Book and

710-519: Is earlier. It aligns with a road from Ripon , Yorkshire, to Little Chester at the River Derwent crossing to Derby , always running due south. From Derby, it crosses western Leicestershire towards Coventry and ends at Edge Hill , Warwickshire. It entered the Sence watershed between Swepstone and Newton Burgoland . South of Bilstone near Temple Mill, it crossed the Sence, probably by a bridge since prehistoric times. Just south of Sibson, it crossed

781-483: Is not classed as Coalville. The civil parish of Hugglescote and Donington le Heath was reinstated by an order made in May 2010, and the new parish council held its first meeting in May 2011. The manor was held by Hugh le Despencer in 1217 and was in various hands until 1464 when the king granted it to William Hastings. In 1463 William Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont held the manors of Donington and Hugglescote. However, in

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852-400: Is obsolete. An alternative truss construction uses two queen posts (or queen-posts). These vertical posts, positioned along the base of the truss, are supported by the sloping sides of the truss, rather than reaching its apex. A development adds a collar beam above the queen posts, which are then termed queen struts. A section of the tie beam between the queen posts may be removed to create

923-416: Is really a misnomer as the system was more widely used than that. The difference between a Norman truss and a king post truss is the tie beam in a Norman truss is technically a collar beam (a beam between the rafters above the rafter feet) where the king post truss the rafters land on top of a tie beam. King posts are also used in the construction of some wire-braced aircraft, where a king post supports

994-528: Is reclaimed marsh draining into the Anker north of Witherley. The watershed is formed primarily by the upthrust of Ordovician (Precambrian) rocks north-east of the Ticknall – Thringstone Fault with Carboniferous measures to the south-west of the fault, including coal, clay and sandstone, which have been exploited in the 19th and 20th centuries as the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield. Over much of

1065-820: Is the largest place of worship in the area, seating some 600 people. It is now part of a combined benefice with the parishes of Ellistown and Snibston . A Wesleyan chapel in Station Road was completed in 1831 and extended in 1891. It is now Hugglescote Methodist Church. Hugglescote had a Baptist chapel in Dennis Street. The building is now closed but the Baptist congregation continues to worship in Hugglescote Community Primary School. A few historic cottages survive in Dennis Street. 26 and 28 Dennis Street are two timber-framed cottages, one of which has

1136-607: The Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway began in 1869 and it opened in 1873. The ANJR had a branch from Shackerstone through Hugglescote to Coalville Town . Hugglescote railway station had a junction to the north of it added in 1883, when the Charnwood Forest Railway opened from here to Loughborough Derby Road . The London, Midland and Scottish Railway absorbed both lines in the 1923 grouping and withdrew passenger services from both lines in 1931. Nationalisation in 1948 made

1207-519: The River Tweed in southern Scotland. It may describe the growth of the stream from Barwell to Shenton or the swelling marsh in rainy times.. Twitchell is a small stream running into the Sence at Sheepy Magna and the lane it adjoins. The origin of the name might be Twice-wella , a stream rising from two springs. The river was exploited for water power and fishing in the 19th and 20th centuries, when there were at least eight water-driven corn mills on

1278-527: The Schöllenen Gorge shows multiple king posts suspended from the apex of the falsework upon which the masonry arch has been laid. In this example, beams in compression are supported by each king post several feet below the apex, and the bottom of the king posts can clearly be seen to be unsupported. Architectural historians in the French colonial cities St Louis , Missouri and New Orleans , Louisiana use

1349-760: The Wars of the Roses Beaumont had fought for the House of Lancaster so he was attaindered and Edward IV granted Donington and Hugglescote to the Yorkist courtier William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings . As of 1831 the Marquis of hastings was lord of the manor. The Hastings family's manor house has been lost. It had a formal garden in which a red brick building was erected in about 1700 and altered in about 1820. The building survives but part of its stone slate roof has collapsed. There

1420-407: The apex of a triangular truss . The king post, itself in tension , connects the apex of the truss with its base, holding up the tie beam (also in tension) at the base of the truss. The post can be replaced with an iron rod called a king rod (or king bolt) and thus a king rod truss. The king post truss is also called a "Latin truss". In traditional timber framing, a crown post looks similar to

1491-585: The Anker as a cobble-bottomed ford to Mythe Hall. Most of its course is close to the watershed boundary with the middle reaches of the Anker. Munitions from the time of the Battle of Bosworth Field have been found near the intersection with Fenn Lane. According to a recent theory, King Richard passed that point on his way towards Ratcliffe and the Mythe on the eve of the battle and Henry could well have established his lines near

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1562-401: The Anker on the boundary with Warwickshire between Sheepy , Ratcliffe Culey and Atherstone at the Mythe, an ancient chaplry of Sheepy (GR SK315991). From Bardon village over a distance of about 20 km, it falls by about 100 m, a gradient of 1:200. Carlton Brook is fed by a group of streams around Bagworth and Nailstone . It runs between Carlton and Market Bosworth , and joins

1633-521: The Bosworth hamlet of Far Coton to join the Saint on Upton Ridge. Thence the Saint continues west to Sibson and meanders to the Sence between Sheepy and Ratcliffe Culey (GR SK326999). In general, its course from Barwell to Ratcliffe covers about 13 km, in which it falls about 50 m, a gradient of about 1:650, resulting in a slower flow than of the Sence, and a muddy, marshy and more meandering channel than

1704-574: The British tribe Iceni in a word-root isc- , 'shine', iscent- , ‘shining’. In common with other rivers of the Midlands, a Celtic origin is more likely than Old English scenc , 'cup, drinking can. Either by coincidence or by association with the river name, All Saints is the dedication of the churches at Sheepy , Ratcliffe Culey and Nailstone in the Sence watershed. It is also the dedication of Ranton , Staffordshire, whose Priory owned Sheepy Manor until

1775-570: The Fenny Compton Gap towards the Thames. From the Anker, it also escaped southwards through Nuneaton towards Coventry and the Avon. At a later stage, a smaller lake east of Upton remained with overflows southwards and through Fenny Drayton to the Anker as well as that towards the Sence, until it cut through Upton Ridge to form the Saint. Upton Ridge and Wellsborough Hill give good views of the flood plain of

1846-498: The Hill through the deserted village of Bell Weston towards Polesworth . The second route, either Iron Age or Danish, entered the watershed as a now metalled road at Wykin and running between Higham on the Hill and Stoke Golding , crossing Fenn Lane near Fenn Lane Farm and Upton Park, whence most of its route to Ratcliffe Culey is preserved as a green lane. From Ratcliffe, it crossed the Sence 100 metres upstream of its confluence with

1917-522: The Hollinshead Chronicle (1576), Anbein (1622) and Amyon by John Hutton (1788). The name seems to derive from Old English Āna-bēam, a One-Beam bridge, probably the hamlet's means of crossing the stream towards Market Bosworth. It is claimed as the traditional site of the Battle of Bosworth . Barwell , Barwalle (1043), Barewelle (1086), sometimes pronounced ‘Barrull’. The first element is Old English bār , ‘boar’. Old English wella signifies

1988-506: The Reformation. Sheepy probably also derives its name from Celtic isc- with apa , ‘shining water’ rather than from Old English. sceap-ea , 'sheep river', or sceap-e.g. , 'sheep island'. Shenton , "Scenctun" (1002), Scentone (1086) derives its name from the river: scenc-tūn , ‘settlement on the Saint’. Tweed derives from Celtic tueda , ‘powerful, swollen’ and tuea , ‘swell’. like

2059-500: The Saint by a muddy ford towards Atterton, whence it crossed the eastern edge of the marsh of Fenny Drayton , leaving the county at Redgate, Fenny Drayton , also meaning ‘Road-Way’. The section from the Sence to Redgate has been replaced by the A444, mostly 100–200 m further east. From the west side of the river at Temple, a branch followed the west bank of the river, skirting north of Sheepy Magna and running as Green Lane south of Orton on

2130-749: The Saint through Ratcliffe Culey suggests at least Iron Age origin. Nearby on that branch, Watery Lane, was an undatable Swithland slate courseway raised above flood level demolished by the Highways Authority around 1950. The River Ouzel in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire used to be called ‘Lovat’ and in Sussex is the River Lavant , both explained from Celtic British, perhaps here meaning either ‘smooth-flowing’.or ‘deep pool’. Mythe derives from Old English gemyþe , ‘place where waters meet, confluence’, here

2201-669: The Saint, as used below. The Sence rises on Bardon Hill (GR SK461132; alt. 278 m), crosses the A50 (GR SK453122) and gathers a group of three headwaters around Bardon (GR SK457123) and Stanton under Bardon. It flows westwards with a tributary stream from Coalville , past Hugglescote (GR SK424123) and Donington le Heath . It then turns south-west, receiving Blower's Brook and another tributary from Ravenstone , continuing between Heather and Ibstock , between Newton Burgoland and Odstone , through Shackerstone, between Bilstone and Congerstone, and between Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva . It joins

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2272-482: The Saint–Tweed runs through Cadeby , Stapleton and Barwell to Hinckley . To the south, the boundary runs through Higham on the Hill and Lindley , where it turns north-west over Upton Ridge through Upton to Ratcliffe Culey . South of Hinckley, it adjoins Soar Brook, and two small tributaries of the Anker, Sketchley Brook and Harrow Brook. The area west of Upton Ridge between Fenny Drayton , Atterton and Witherley

2343-1035: The Sence Valley between Ravenstone , Ibstock and Heather and later transferred them to the Forestry Commission , which reclaimed the area as the Sence Valley Forest Park . It contains woodland, lakes linked to the River Sence, grassland and a wild flower meadow. An artificial nesting wall for sand martins has also been constructed alongside Horseshoe Lake. In this varied habitat, 150 species of bird have been recorded. The lakes provide habitat for heron , coot , tufted duck , pochard , wigeon and great-crested grebe . Kestrels nest each year and, though less evident in daytime, there are barn owls and short-eared owls . Raptors , marsh, hen and Montague's harrier , osprey , red-footed falcon , merlin , peregrine and buzzard have all been seen. The bird list for

2414-474: The Sence are two small lakes between Heather and Ibstock , used for fishing in an area of former clay workings. Sheepy Lake was formerly fed from the river and supplied the mill in times of drought. It too is used for fishing and is now fed from ground water. Stapleton Brook has a lake east of Sutton Lane in Bosworth Park. The River Sence is fished for roach, chub, dace, perch, trout, bream tench and carp and

2485-411: The Sence south of Congerstone . The largest tributary of the Sence is the Saint, with a headwater called the Tweed rising near Barwell (GR SP435961; alt. 125 m) and on Barwell Lane (GR 438957; alt. 115 m). A branch from Hinckley (GR SP429951; alt. ca 125 m) joins the Tweed south-west of Stapleton, south of Harper's Hill. The Tweed runs west almost to Dadlington , whence it is canalized north-west to

2556-410: The Sence, which has an average gradient of about 1:200: Hugglescote Corn Mill; Ravenstone Mill; Ibstock Corn Mill; Help-Out Mill, Shackerstone ; Congerstone Corn Mill; Temple Corn Mill; Sibson Corn Mill; Sheepy Corn Mill. Perhaps in earlier times, there was a mill at the moated site at Old Hall Farm and Brook Farm, Bardon. Early in the 19th century, the formerly moated site of Mythe Hall had

2627-680: The Sence. Only across the Upton–Linley north–south ridge between Shenton and Sibson is its flow faster. To the north-west, the watershed of the Sence adjoins that of Bramcote Brook and Frog Moor Stream, both running south-west into the Anker, and the Gillwiskaw, a stream running into the River Mease north of Gopsall . The boundary runs north-west from Orton on the Hill , through Norton juxta Twycross and Newton Burgoland , between Normanton le Heath and Heather, through Alton to Swannington . To

2698-557: The Tweed–Saint Valley were filled with clays from Lake Harrison , which filled much of Leicestershire and Warwickshire towards the end of the Ice Age , when drainage was blocked by ice from Wales and the north. Water from south-west Leicestershire would have escaped from Congerstone, along the line of the Ashby de la Zouch Canal, then along the line of the Anker south-east past Nuneaton to

2769-665: The apex to the horizontal beam below. For a roof truss, the diagonal members are called rafters , and the horizontal member may serve as a ceiling joist . A bridge would require two king post trusses with the driving surface between them. A roof usually uses many side-by-side trusses depending on the size of the structure. Pont-y-Cafnau , the world's first iron railway bridge, is of the king post type. King posts were used in timber-framed roof construction in Roman buildings, and in medieval architecture in buildings such as parish churches and tithe barns . The oldest surviving roof truss in

2840-444: The area where Richard stationed some of his troops while lodging the night at Mythe Hall. Lovett or Lovett's Bridge , sometimes ‘Lovatt’ links Sheepy Parva across the Sence towards Orton on the Hill and Polesworth . Though there is now a footbridge, the ford there is at least 1000 years old. No association with a person so called has been found. Its relation to a branch of Redway towards Polesworth and to an ancient crossing of

2911-504: The confluence of the Sence with the Anker. The name exists also for a settlement where the Avon joins the Severn north of Tewkesbury. Ratcliffe , Redeclive (1086), ‘road-cleave’. Ratcliffe Culey takes its name from the ford where the Hinckley–Mythe road was ‘cleaved’ by the Sence 100 m upstream of its confluence with the Anker. Sandeford is mentioned as the place where Richard III

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2982-472: The confluence with Stapleton Brook. It then runs west along the foot of Ambion Hill . It gains a stream from between Higham on the Hill and Wykin running north and another from Lindley running north-east and turns north to Shenton , where it joins a smaller stream running west from Cadeby (GR SK429020; alt. 128 m) to become the Saint flowing westwards. A large stream from the north rises west of Market Bosworth and north-west of Hoo Hills, Wellsborough, passing

3053-488: The date 1583 on a collar beam and thus dates from the period that W. G. Hoskins identified as the Great Rebuilding of England. The gable end has collar and tie beams and queen struts . The building was extended eastwards in 1761. In 1960 Hoskins considered the original part of the building to be the oldest dated cottage in a Leicestershire village. 16 Dennis Street is a timber-framed cottage with brick nogging that

3124-457: The foot of Ambion Hill . King Dick's Hole is a deep part of the Anker at its confluence with the Sence. Since at least Victorian times, it has been a popular bathing place for the youth of Atherstone and Sheepy. Local tradition has it that it is where King Richard bathed before the battle. More likely ‘hole’ is a corruption of early English halgh ; an area of flood plain enclosed by a meandering river. The name could originally have referred to

3195-446: The headwaters. The prehistoric roads almost avoided river crossings. No motorways pass through the watershed, though the M1 adjoins a headwater east of Bardon. The one canal and a former through-line of railway exploited glacial overflow channels linking the valleys of the Sence and Tweed–Saint. The Redway, in southern Warwickshire called Radway , crosses Roman roads in a way that suggests it

3266-705: The intersections of the Hinckley road, the Redway and Fenn Lane, if he approached the battlefield along the Redway. The third route, Salt Street, entered the watershed from the north-west near Norton-juxta-Twycross, passed through Twycross and crossed the Sence by Temple Mill. Thence it crossed Wellsborough Hill to Far Coton, skirting the larger tributaries of the River Saint and Tweed, probably to Barwell. A branch towards Leicester ran through Measham, possibly through Heather, Ibstock and Bagworth . A prehistoric route follows

3337-555: The lakes, damselflies such as common blue, blue-tailed and azure as well as dragonflies such as the southern hawker and brown hawker are also fairly abundant. In the middle reaches of the Sence around Shackerstone, Bilstone and Congerstone, fishing rights belong to Gopsall , now falling under Crown Estate, which is working in cooperation with the Environment Agency and Gopsall Fishing Club to reverse bank erosion caused by cattle poaching, land drainage, dredging and tunnelling of

3408-470: The landscape are at Market Bosworth and Wellsborough . The higher land towards the north-east formed a plateau, in which the tributaries of the Sence have cut narrow valleys. The Saint–Tweed valley contained a major branch of the ‘Proto-Soar’ until the Pleistocene glaciation when the valley was blocked by sands and gravels around Cadeby and Stoke Golding . The lower parts of the Sence Valley and most of

3479-427: The line of Bagworth Brook to Shackerstone, continuing through Congerstone towards Polesworth seems also to be an Anglian or Iron Age route. King post In aircraft design a strut called a king post acts in compression, similarly to an architectural crown post. Usage in mechanical plant and marine engineering differs again, as noted below. A king post extends vertically from a crossbeam (the tie beam ) to

3550-518: The lines part of British Railways , which withdrew freight services from the Charnwood Forest line in 1963 and from the Ashby and Nuneaton line in 1971. The Victorian hymnist , Henry Dennis (1818–87) lived in Hugglescote for forty years and is buried in the old Baptist Cemetery off Grange Road: Dennis Street is named after him. In the same cemetery is the tomb of William Stenson (1770–1861),

3621-475: The lower reaches. The middle reaches of both rivers are less visible in the landscape. The coalfields were exploited from mines at Coalville, Snibston, Hugglescote, Ibstock, Nailstone, Bagworth and Ellistown. Brickworks and terracotta works were mainly around Ibstock and Heather. Ambion is the name of a deserted village by a headwater of the Saint rising in Cadeby. It is recorded as Anabein (ca 1270), Anne Beame in

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3692-406: The mining engineer and founder of Whitwick Colliery, who has sometimes been described as "the father of Coalville". Hugglescote now has a Community Primary School . The buildings of its former National School (see above) are now a community centre. The village has one public house :, The Gate Inn. It has also a working men's club . Roberts Travel Group are based on Midland Road within

3763-557: The north-east along Charnwood Forest, headwaters adjoin Grace Dieu Brook and Black Brook running north-east towards the Soar . To the east and south-east, the Sence adjoins various brooks running into the Soar running south and south-east: Slate Brook, Rothley Brook and Thurlaston Brook. The boundary runs south-west from Stanton under Bardon to Bagworth , where it turns south. The watershed of

3834-573: The north-east to Hinckley and almost to Watling Street in the south and south-west. Its watershed almost coincides with Hinckley and Bosworth Borough of Leicestershire, which was formed in 1974 by amalgamation of Market Bosworth Rural District and Hinckley Urban District. It flows into the Anker , which in turn flows into the River Tame . It is part of the wider River Trent catchment, which covers much of central England. In 1881, Sebastian Evans wrote that

3905-682: The north-west boundary of the Sence watershed from Ravenstone , between Normanton le Heath and Heather, through Newton Nethercote , Norton juxta Twycross , Orton on the Hill , Little Warton to an ancient crossing of the Anker at Polesworth . Its importance in Anglian–Danish times is indicated by the name of the route east of Norton: Shelford Lane, ‘Shallow Ford’ Lane. A road that dates at least from Anglian times runs south from Packington , through Ravenstone to Bagworth . It crossed Blower's Brook south of Alton , Ravenstone Brook in Ravenstone,

3976-513: The park currently stands at 101 species. Long grassy areas have become home for many wild mammals including field vole , shrew , stoat , rabbit and fox . Water voles are present on streams feeding the river. Otters too are once again using the river. Among the species of bats are pipistrelle , Daubenton's bat and noctule . Insects in summer include gatekeeper butterfly, meadow brown, speckled wood , small skipper , green-veined white , peacock butterfly and small tortoiseshell . Around

4047-566: The reservoir called Sheepy Lake. Legend has it that Richard III granted the freemen of Sheepy fishing rights in the Sence in thanks for their hospitality on the eve of the eve of the Battle of Bosworth Field . In practice, those rights remained with the owners of the Manor of Sheepy, though they sometimes turned a blind eye to villagers who exploited their claim. According to that legend, Richard stayed at Mythe Hall. In recent years, Leicestershire County Council took over clay workings and coal pits in

4118-553: The river and to divert otters away from the A444. At least five undatable through routes, probably Iron Age, and one Roman road cross the Sence watershed. Three modern trunk roads, largely following 18th century turnpikes, cross the area, two from north to south: the A444 Burton on Trent – Nuneaton and the A447 Ravenstone – Hinckley – Nuneaton . The A50 Burton on Trent – Ashby de la Zouch – Leicester road runs south-east across

4189-464: The river. The Saint, with its low gradient is unsuitable for water power and probably never had many mills. The names Mill View near the Tweed in Barwell and Mill Lane south of Shenton suggest that water mills existed there in earlier times. The Domesday Survey lists only three mills in the Sence watershed: at Alton, Congerstone and Sheepy. The mill at Alton near Ravenstone was probably wind-driven. On

4260-434: The term "Norman roof" to refer to a steeply pitched roof; it is supported by what they call a "Norman truss" which is similar to a king post truss. This is a through-purlin truss consisting of a tie beam and paired truss blades, with a central king post to support the roof ridge. The name derives from a belief that this system of construction was introduced to North America by settlers from Normandy in northern France, but it

4331-463: The top cables or "ground wires" supporting the wing. Only on the ground are these wires from the kingpost in tension, while in the air under positive g flight they are unloaded. The very robust hinge connecting the boom to the chassis in a backhoe , similar in function and appearance to a large automotive kingpin , is called a king post. On a cargo ship or oiler a king post is an upright with cargo-handling or fueling rig devices attached to it. On

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4402-493: The usual names for this river were Shenton Brook and Sibson Brook. It is also used of the Saint and its tributary from Stapleton . Antiquarian accounts of the Battle of Bosworth label the brook upstream of Shenton "Tweed". Recent Ordnance Maps 1:25 000 (2000) label only the "Tweed River" south-west of Stapleton and the 1:50 000 (1990) map gives it no name. The lower reaches from Shenton to Ratcliffe Culey are known locally as

4473-475: The village and provide the local bus service connecting the village with Coalville and Hinckley . [REDACTED] Media related to Hugglescote at Wikimedia Commons River Sence The River Sence is a river which flows in Leicestershire , England . The tributaries of the Sence, including the Saint and Tweed , fan out over much of western Leicestershire from Charnwood Forest and Coalville in

4544-593: The watershed, the Ordovician outcrop of Bardon Hill is prominent. Most of the Carboniferous measures of western Leicestershire are covered with red mudstones of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group. The outcrop of these rocks gives rise to a moderately undulating landscape characterised by mixed pasture and arable agricultural use that has developed on the neutral clay soils. The most prominent hills in

4615-544: The world is a king post truss in Saint Catherine's Monastery , Egypt, built between 548 and 565. King posts also appear in Gothic Revival architecture , Queen Anne style architecture and occasionally in modern construction. King post trusses are also used as a structural element in wood and metal bridges. A painting by Karl Blechen circa 1833 illustrating construction of the second Devil's Bridge ( Teufelsbrücke ) in

4686-524: Was an old Church of England chapel of ease in Dennis Street which was replaced by a Georgian chapel of Saint James in 1776. Hugglescote's population outgrew the chapel and so the present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was built on a new site in Grange Road and consecrated in 1879. St. John's is a Gothic Revival building designed by the architect J. B. Everard in an Early English style. The first vicar, Canon H. E. Broughton,

4757-453: Was exploited by Ranton Priory until the Reformation. It was enlarged in the 19th century by Charles Bonington Lowe and switched to steam power. After World War II, the mill installed a water turbine but switched to electrical power. It closed around 1970. For the first half of the 20th century under the name C. B. Lowe Ltd, it was a major employer in the village and a supplier of flour for a wide district. Its Sentinel steam lorries drew water from

4828-480: Was installed in 1878 and died in office in 1924. He is commemorated by a reredos installed in St. John's in 1937 and a nearby road-name, Broughton Street. St. John's is built largely of local materials: Charnwood granite rubble , Swithland slate, Ibstock brick and Coalville ceramic floor tiles. The nave has five- bay arcades with Shap granite columns and a clerestory with paired lancet windows . St. John's has

4899-451: Was killed in the Battle of Bosworth but its situation is lost. It might be where Fenn Lane crosses the Tweed (GR 407989) or a tributary from Higham on the Hill (GR 391984) or on the Redway where a stream ran into the marsh north of Fenny Drayton (GR 352979) Both sites are rather marshy, so that a site on the River Saint at Miles Ford north-west of Shenton (GR 377010) is more probable. ' Sence and Saint probably share their origin with

4970-407: Was mainly built in the 17th century, although the original part of the cottage was built in 1590, and has some alterations from the 19th or late 18th centuries. The staircase is in a semicircular extension at the rear of the cottage. 15 Dennis Street is a cottage built of brick with a Swithland slate roof and the date 1757 on a brick over the front door. The soil is in some parts of clay but in others

5041-473: Was restocked with grayling in 2007. In the 12th century, Richard de Harcourt of Great Sheepy (Leics.) gave Ranton Priory in Staffordshire 9 virgates of land with fishing rights and 2s. rent from his mill there. This property was the priory's most important temporal estate outside Staffordshire and remained so until the dissolution of the priory in 1537. Ranton Priory probably enlarged the mill and dug out

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