Links

Links to related websites

David Middleton

Bottesford C of E. Primary School web site and a brief history.

http://www.bottesford.leics.sch.uk/

Bottesford in “A Vision of Britain Through Time – A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions”.

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10371107

Belvoir High School web site

http://www.belvoirhigh.leics.sch.uk/

Bomber Command history of Normanton Airfield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bottesford

Bottesford Airfield, historic Control Tower – a site giving details of Bottesford during the Second World War

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/B/Bottesford.htm

Bottesford Parish Census 2001 gives a snapshot of Bottesford today.

Bottesford Census 29th April 2001

CommunitySites is a web design company which specialises in contributory heritage sites. The Bottesford Living History web site is run by them and permits website visitors to add their own words or pictures to the site.

https://www.communitysites.co.uk

East Midlands Oral History Archive with references to Bottesford and surrounding areas.

http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/community/melton.html

Framland Carriers web site by Guy Etchells. Botteford has always been a centre of commerce and communication. This lists carriers in the Framland area from 1870’s directories.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/framland/carriers.htm

The Guys of Bottesford web site. This site is an excellent resource for any one interested in local history. Guy Etchells maintains this genealogy sote with many useful local history resources including transcriptions of census records (1851-1901); parish Burial Register 1730 – 1900; and Families of Bottesford, Leics. Database listing 12,132 Births, Deaths & Marriages!!

See also these Guy Etchells’s links for the local area http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/par/lnlinks.htm

Great Northern Railway and London & North Western Railway history site including details of the former Bottesford South Station on Nottingham Road at the west end of the village.

http://www.meltonmowbray.steamrailways.com/Bott-Redmile.htm – no longer available

Barb Hafslund family website with genealogy of Bottesford families (Dent, Stanley and Painters)

http://aussiebarb01.tripod.com/ourstory.htm

John Nichols – The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire 1795 – Bottesford entry transcibed by Guy Etchells.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ag/maps/bvm.htm

Leicestershire Villages – Oral History Archive where there is a excerpt from the BBC Radio programme “The Street” recorded in 1996 by Tony Wilkinson. Tony Wilkinson produced a snapshot of Bottesford in the 1990’s.

http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/bottesford/54704.html

Long Bennington Local History Society

https://lblhs.wordpress.com

The Record Office for Leicestershire

http://www.recordoffice.org.uk

Melton Museum – The Melton Carnegie Museum

https://www.meltonmuseum.org

Redmile Archive – Local history webpage for Redmile village edited by Linda Brockway.

http://www.redmilearchive.freeuk.com/

Vale of Belvoir Business Directory. A facebook page listing some local businesses.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/267342133665494/

Wikipedia entry for Bottesford