Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society . think of England in the time of the Romansand Saxons, it was not only sparsely populated, but native forestsspread over a considerable portion of central England, thatroads, saving the Watling Street and the Fosse Way, there werenone ; tracks only existing across the open country from placeto place. The enclosures here having been made so late as1760 (I believe there are people living who remember the old land-mark stones at Sharnford), and within the last eighty years, orless, Pollards the carriers waggons, with eig
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society . think of England in the time of the Romansand Saxons, it was not only sparsely populated, but native forestsspread over a considerable portion of central England, thatroads, saving the Watling Street and the Fosse Way, there werenone ; tracks only existing across the open country from placeto place. The enclosures here having been made so late as1760 (I believe there are people living who remember the old land-mark stones at Sharnford), and within the last eighty years, orless, Pollards the carriers waggons, with eight horses, tookeight and ten hours, and in bad weather much longer, betweenHinckley and Leicester. Each individual community, so to speak,had to eke out and obtain their own existence by their own handi-craft ; hence, all the corn they could get for bread must be grownon the soil around them. This brings one to the fact thatEngland was essentially agricultural, and so was this Hinckleyand its neighbourhood down to a little more than a century-and-a- Of THE , e Hill, nished Ordnance Survey Plan. 1. 826 U 11 < KSTK US 11T ft K A IK: M IT MCTTITIAL SOCIETY. A Bill of tho Hinckley Whitmonday Show Fair, May 28th,1792. Balance Sheet and List of Subscriptions for the support of theHinckley Volunteer Infantry, Hinckley Theatre Bill, 1808. A leaf headed, The Accompts of the Churchwardens andOverseers of the poor of the parish of Hinckley for raising 6men for his Majestys Navy, for the several parishes of Hinckley,Higham, Lindley, Aston Flamville, Wykin, Normanton and BassettHouse, May 2, 1795. Then follow the names, Expenses asset forth in Bounties, &c, £198 13s. 3Jd., and Receipts,which includes a ninepenny levy for Hinckley; the remainder ismutilated. The original appropriation sheets and minute book, when theChurch was repewed &c, 1764. Old Comb teeth, used at the wool combing and carding mills. The Banner or Standard of the Honour of Hinckley, party perpale inde
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