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Lost Villages

I'm fascinated by the idea of lost places, lost villages - and this has been piqued by finding this post on the Brum Conservation Blog - and then following that this site. Does anyone know of any lost Leicestershire Villages? I'm thinking Museobunny likes this too...
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Mike Simpson said…
A quick Google brings up this 2005 BBC gallery of images of Knaptoft.
http://bbc.in/97gmiM

And here's a list of lost Leics villages at Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/bvxA11
Friday, November 19, 2010 11:30:00 am
Stephanie said…
This is such an interesting subject. Returning briefly to Brum, I noticed there was a lot of coverage on the BBC today about the Birmingham Blitz which was heavily censored, and those areas of the city, some of them hidden and known only to a few, which have served as places of remembrance after the devastation.
Friday, November 19, 2010 3:53:00 pm
Jenny said…
I did not know THAT! Wow, thanks!
Friday, November 19, 2010 7:54:00 pm
Stephanie said…
I had no idea how badly Birmingham suffered-you hear a lot about Coventry, but when thousands of lives were lost in air raids on Brum, the censors referred to it as a 'Midlands town' because they were so worried about morale. A lot of damaged buildings were swept away during the redevelopment of the 1950s and 1960s, but the BBC reporter took viewers down a gated side street which opens out onto a 1940s courtyard which survived the bombing and is now protected. Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of one of the raids.

Link here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/birmingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9198000/9198513.stm
Saturday, November 20, 2010 1:14:00 pm
Jenny said…
Wow. Over 2000 killed. I'm ashamed I didn't know.
Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:39:00 pm
Jenny said…
And Mike, thanks for the villages - how fascinating. There's a lot in Leicestershire, actually!
Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:01:00 pm
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