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Dist:0.2km<br/>The former back drive to Prestwold Hall, which would have been used for deliveries, is no longer used. Peeping over the rise is the Back Lodge, which is Listed Grade II.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Lighting the entrance to Prestwold Church. It probably dates to the time of the rebuilding of the church in 1890 and would have housed either an oil or candle lamp.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The late 14th century tower is the most significant element of the medieval church remaining, the nave having been completely rebuilt in the 19th century. The church is Listed Grade II*.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This lies outside the main area of the Vale of Belvoir in which these slate gravestones with carved angels can be found. This one dates from the 1730s. The material is slate from the Swithland quarries in Charnwood Forest.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The church is one of only two buildings which survive from the pre-enclosure period, the village having been demolished in the late 18th century to make way for the new Prestwold Hall and Park. The church was heavily rebuilt in 1890 by Sir. A. Blomfield, basically only retaining the tower (late 14th century), and parts of the chancel. Interestingly, the replaced nave was not medieval, having been rebuilt in classical style in 1743. There are nonetheless a number of memorials of the Packe family which date from the late 15th century onward. The church is Listed Grade II*.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The back drive looking towards the domestic and stable yard of Prestwold Hall. The drive is now no longer used.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A finely carved lion's head, the crest of the Packe family, surmounts the family initials, CJP, and together with the date 1834 is enclosed in a gothic style quatrefoil roundel.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Built as a girls' school for the Packe Estate in 1834, later a Sunday school, and now converted to a private residence. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2732074 for details of the former main entrance and the gothic style windows and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2732073 for the attractive carved and dated roundel in the gable. Listed Grade II.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Note the roundel in the gable http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2732073 and the gothic style glazing bars in the main window.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>E II R post-mounted lamp-box serving what remains of Prestwold village.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen from the Loughborough Road, with the church and Prestwold Hall. The park dates from the time of the earlier house, c.1760-70, when the village land was enclosed, and is Listed Grade II.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The boundary between the formal gardens and the parkland of Prestwold Hall, contemporary with the rebuilding of the hall from 1842-4. Listed Grade II
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