Redmile
| Redmile | |
| Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 Public house, Redmile | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK797354 |
| Location: | 52°54’39"N, -0°48’57"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 921 (2011) |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG13 |
| Dialling code: | 01949 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Melton |
Redmile is a village and parish in Leicestershire, about 10 miles north of Melton Mowbray and seven miles west of Grantham. The population of the civil parish (including Barkestone-le-Vale and Plungar) was 921 at the 2011 census,[1] up from 829 in 2001.[2]
The parish lies in the Vale of Belvoir close to the county borders with Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The nearest places are Granby, Sutton-cum-Granby and Elton on the Hill to the west. Other nearby places are Bottesford, Belvoir, and Stathern. In 1936 the adjoining civil parishes of Barkestone and Plungar were merged into that of Redmile; the present-day parish is sometimes known as Barkestone, Plungar and Redmile.
Amenities
Redmile has a Church of England primary school with about 70 pupils, which serves the whole parish. The original national school opened in 1839. It was rebuilt on the same site in 1871,[3] then extended with new classrooms in 1999 and 2001 and a school hall in 2009.[4]
St Peter's Church dates back to the 13th century: the earliest references are to an earlier building, to whose parish the prior of Belvoir Priory was patron in 1155 and whose first rector was installed in 1220. The parish is now served by the Vale of Belvoir Team.[5] The present-day Church of England building is Grade II* listed and dates mainly from the 14th century, with additions and restorations in the 15th century and in 1840 and 1857.[6] Three of the gravestones in the churchyard are also listed. Dating from the late 17th century, they are examples of a local type known as "Belvoir Angels" and made of Swithland slate.[7] One of them is dated 1690, making it the oldest such stone in the Vale itself.[8]
The former Methodist Chapel, built in 1869, is now a private residence. There are ten other listed buildings in the village, some dating back to the 17th century.[9]
Redmile has two pubs, both now doubling as restaurants: the Peacock Inn and the Windmill Inn. The 18th-century Peacock also has bed-and-breakfast accommodation.[10]
Screen appearances
Redmile was used as a filming location in the majority of the second-series episodes of the popular British comedy drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, about a group of seven British migrant construction workers, with the Windmill Inn being used as the Barley Mow pub.[11] The Windmill featured as the Kings Oak in a number of location scenes for the 2001 revival of a television soap Crossroads.[12]
Transport
The village has a weekday daytime bus service to Melton Mowbray and Bottesford. The nearest railway station is at Bottesford (four miles distant) on the Nottingham to Grantham/Skegness line. Redmile and Belvoir railway station opened in 1879 but closed to passengers in 1951.[13] The Grantham Canal to Nottingham opened in 1797 and closed in 1936. Short sections have been reopened for leisure craft.[14]
Notable people
- Thomas Daffy (died 1680), who became rector of Redmile in 1666, was the inventor of a patent medicine, Daffy's Elixir, in about 1647.[15]
- The Leicestershire cricketer Frederic Geeson (1862–1920) was born in Redmile.[16]
- The international cricketer Luke Wright (born 1985) attended the village school.[17]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Redmile) |
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127871&c=Redmile&d=16&e=62&g=6445138&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1465220241453&enc=1. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ↑ "Census 2001 Parish profile", Leicestershire County Council. Retrieved 2 December 2014
- ↑ Leicestershire Villages. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ↑ School site. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ↑ A Church Near You. Retrieved 2 December 2014
- ↑ English Heritage. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ↑ Listing texts [1] and [2] Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ Nottingham Post Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ↑ Melton Borough Council [3]
- ↑ Owner websites: Retrieved 2 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ↑ "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - Locations Series 2: Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Newcastle and Marbella.". Auf-Pet.com. Auf-Pet.com. http://www.auf-pet.com/s2e3locations#.V6taf_krLIU. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ↑ Filming locations Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ↑ P. Howard Anderson: Forgotten Railways, The East Midlands (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973).
- ↑ Hadfield, Charles (1970). The Canals of the East Midlands. David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4871-X.; Grantham Canal Society Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ↑ Leicestershire Villages. Retrieved 2 December 2014.; [4]
- ↑ "Frederic Geeson", Cricket Archive. Retrieved 2 December 2014
- ↑ School site.