Ashby Folville

Ashby Folville

St Mary's Church, Ashby Folville
Ashby Folville
 Ashby Folville shown within Leicestershire
OS grid referenceSK7012
Civil parishGaddesby
DistrictMelton
Shire countyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
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Coordinates: 52°42′N 0°58′W / 52.70°N 00.96°W

Ashby Folville is a village in the Melton district of Leicestershire, south west of Melton Mowbray. The civil parish of Ashby Folville was abolished in 1936 and its 1,796 acres (727 ha) were merged with Gaddesby.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book.[1] The Folville element of the placename comes from a family that had its seat here. The family name, ultimately derived from Folleville in the French region of Picardy, is attached to several other sites in Leicestershire, such as the deserted village of Newbolt Folville.[2] Eustace Folville (died 1346) was the leader of a robber band active in Leicestershire and Derbyshire in the first half of the 14th century. With four of his younger brothers, including the priest Richard, they were responsible for two of the most notorious crimes of early 14th century England.

The parish church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building. The Ashby Folville estate was bought in 1890 by Herbert Smith-Carington, then mayor of Worcester (died 1917), who built cottages and a village institute and restored the church. The old wooden roofs of the nave and the new oak panels of the chancel and screen of the Woodford chapel are among the features of interest. In the chancel are memorials to Ralph Woodford and Elizabeth Woodford. Monuments in the Woodford chapel include a stone knight known as "Old Folville" and the fine monument of Sir Francis Smith and his wife.[3] Stained glass windows by Veronica Whall and Edward Woore were erected in memory of members of the Smith-Carington family.

After World War II, a resettlement camp for displaced people from Poland was established in a former US Army base in the grounds of Ashby Folville Manor.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Domesday Book Index". Haughton.net. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
  2. ↑ The Battle Abbey Roll: with some account of the Norman lineages, ed. by Catherine L.W. Primrose, 3 vols. (London: John Murray, 1889), I, 17
  3. ↑ Firth, J. B. (1926) Highways and Byways in Leicestershire. London: Macmillan; pp. 272-75
  4. ↑ "Polish reunion is resounding success", Melton Times 14 Sept 2010

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