Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Charnwood Forest, a bare hilly tract, about 20 miles in circuit, in the NE of Leicestershire, near Charley, 5 miles SW of Loughborough. It was enclosed in 1812. It consists chiefly of trap rocks, but includes slate, freestone, and coal. Its highest ground is Bardon Hill, which has an altitude of 853 feet, and commands a very extensive view. Charley hermitage and Ulvescroft priory were within it, and a monastery of St Bernard was built in it, near Bardon Hill, in 1845, and has a chapel, a chapter house, and cloisters in the Early English style. The three vicarages of Oaks, Copt-Oaks, and Woodhouse-Eaves are in it, and will be separately noticed. The property of it is in six manors.
Maps
Online maps of Charnwood Forest are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: