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People, community and memory
  • Festival of Archaeology 2018 events in Bottesford
    Festival of Archaeology 2018 events in Bottesford
    Join us at the 2018 Festival of Archaeology - click here for details
  • Muston School in 1940
    Muston School in 1940
    Remembered by Gerald Coy
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    The "Duchess of Sutherland" passes through!
    10 seconds of bliss at Bottesford station
  • Find out about our latest project
    Find out about our latest project
    Bottesford Parish World War One Centenary
  • Explore our Online Archive
    Explore our Online Archive
    road men at their ease outside the Red Lion, Grantham Road
  • Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Learn about the history of this beautiful Grade-1 Listed church: Buy the Book!

This website is a living history of the parish of Bottesford and Muston in Leicestershire. The editors are all members of the Bottesford History Group.

Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about Bottesford, past and present. Find out how you can contribute your own words and pictures.

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Featured pages
  • Remembering Pte. Thomas William Skinner

    Remembering Pte. Thomas William Skinner

    2nd Bn., Leicestershire Regiment, Died on the 11th June 1918
  • Remembering L/Cpl Charles Baines

    Remembering L/Cpl Charles Baines

    2nd Bn., East Lancashire Regiment. Died of wounds, 28th May 1918
  • Remembering Pte. Cyril Gale

    Remembering Pte. Cyril Gale

    7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. Died of Wounds, 27th April 1918. Age 19 years.
  • Alfred Calcraft, b1865 Muston

    Alfred Calcraft, b1865 Muston

    A soldier recording his service in needlepoint
  • Soldiers of the Spick family

    Soldiers of the Spick family

    Joseph Spick and his sons Robert, Charles, Percy and Benjamin
  • Commemorating men lost from the Vale of Belvoir in the the first week of the German Spring Offensive - 21st March, 1918

    Commemorating men lost from the Vale of Belvoir in the the first week of the German Spring Offensive - 21st March, 1918

    Centenary Remembrance Service St Guthlac's Church, Stathern Saturday 24th March 2018
  • Remembering Sgt. John Richard Robinson

    Remembering Sgt. John Richard Robinson

    5th Battalion Machine Gun Corp. Died of Wounds 11th April 1918
  • Remembering Pte. Philip Sutton

    Remembering Pte. Philip Sutton

    1/6th Durham Light Infantry, Killed in Action on the 24th March 1918
  • Remembering Sgt. Walter Hardy DCM

    Remembering Sgt. Walter Hardy DCM

    16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters ‘Chatsworth Rifles’. Killed in Action 21st March 1918
What's new
  • Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Now available
  • Remembering Pte. Thomas William Skinner

    Remembering Pte. Thomas William Skinner

    2nd Bn., Leicestershire Regiment, Died on the 11th June 1918
  • Festival of Archaeology 2018 events in Bottesford

    Festival of Archaeology 2018 events in Bottesford

    Talks and discovery walks in Bottesford.
More new pages
Forthcoming events
  • The Finding of the Newark Torc and other Treasures on July 17, 2018 7:00 pm
  • Bridging Two Cultures: a commercial archaeological evaluation at Easthorpe on July 19, 2018 7:00 am

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  • Neil Fortey on The shield of Margaret Neville, 2nd Countess of Rutland.We are very grateful to the Norreys for providing us with this information. Neil Fortey (ed)

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