Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society . INCKLEY. When we come to 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 ca
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society . INCKLEY. When we come to 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-. OLD HINCKLEY. 327 half since, on the introduction of the stocking frame. As witness,the numerous farm yards in and about the town. There werelarge farm yards at the Manor House, now Mr. Foxwells; the lateMr. Bonners, now Mr. D. Paynes ; three or four others beyond,and on the opposite side several more; also one where the Co-operative Stores now are, Well Lane,—all in Upper Bond Street;while in Castle Street, the bottom yard of our premises, theold paving of the farm yard still exists about eighteen inchesbelow the surface. Just below, now Miss Moores, the hugebarn and other buildings were unroofed in a terrific storm aboutforty-five years since. In the Church Walk, opposite, therewere several others; the old stuccoed house, now occupied by theCurate, was one, and the old half-timbered cottages were the farmbuildings; and many others in different parts of the town, UpperCastle Street, New Buildings, Coventr
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