Rempstone
| Rempstone | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 Village sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK575244 |
| Location: | 52°48’51"N, 1°8’47"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 367 (2011) |
| Post town: | Loughborough |
| Postcode: | LE12 |
| Dialling code: | 01509 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rushcliffe |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Rushcliffe |
| Website: | http://www.rempstonevillage.org.uk/ |
Rempstone is a village Nottinghamshire, in the very south of the county, close to the border of Leicestershire, and its closest town is Loughborough across the border. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 367.
The village stands at the crossing of the A60 and A6006 roads.
The village appears as Rampstune and Repestone in the 1086 Domesday Book.[1]
Churches
The first church in Rempstone, St Peter in the Rushes,[2] stood approximately half a mile north-east of the present village near the Sheepwash Brook next to a moated Manor House now a fishing lake, a 'holy spring' is also at this location. An archaeological dig, 1960–1962, revealed the foundations of a 12th-century tower with square buttresses.[3]
Earthworks near the brook indicate the original site of the village.[4]
The present church, All Saints' Church, was built mainly from the materials of the old church and was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1773. About 20 headstones mark the site of the original churchyard and during the last 200 years of this church there were approximately 950 burials including that of six former Rectors of Rempstone.
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References
- ↑ Rempstone in the Domesday Book
- ↑ http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/rempstone-st-peter-rushes/hhistory.php St Peter in the Rushes
- ↑ The Leake Historian East Leake and district Local History Society
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1