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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 28 June 20 22:45 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much - I'll check this site out.  Christine

Quote from: purlin on Sunday 28 June 20 14:04 BST (UK)
whoops sorry, just realised I have not added the link for the site I mentioned!

https://www.breedonparishcouncil.org.uk/uploads/hand-me-down-hearsays-part-1.pdf

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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 23 August 20 12:47 BST (UK) »
Hi I lived at Breedon 1984 to 1994. During that time the old chapel (opposite the war memorial) was bought by someone named Archer, he converted it into a private dwelling. Also during this time I had some old  'electricity board' maps that referred to the village having electricity installed, I'm sure we passed then on to the parish council.
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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #11 on: Monday 24 August 20 12:41 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much, carolmc  :). I'll add this to my list of queries for Breedon parish council.

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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #12 on: Friday 04 September 20 23:16 BST (UK) »
Try National Library of Scotland for old maps of the UK
Platts - Morrell - Smith - Humphrey - Hancock - Heritage - Wilkins - Satchell/Satchel - Brooks/Brookes - James - Brown - Wardle - Hall - Croson/Croston - Davis/Davies - Fox - Humber - Sibson - Cooke/Cook -Chapman - Musson - Mountney - Ward - Cullen - Mumford/Mumfoot - Hoverd - Scriven/Scrivins - Ward - Harvey - Groombridge - Bullock - Holt - Harris - Cooper - May - Downs

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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #13 on: Monday 07 September 20 13:02 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Artypie on Friday 04 September 20 23:16 BST (UK)
Try National Library of Scotland for old maps of the UK

I think I replied in messages instead of here. So, to repeat, many thanks for your suggestion.

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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 02 May 21 22:40 BST (UK) »
The war memorial was built from Breedon stone which my great grandfather John Gillies Shields owned.  He owned all of Breedon.  I lived there for a year and now lives abt 10 miles away.

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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 02 May 21 22:44 BST (UK) »
Someone on this site mentioned the book by F. Taylor.  I've just found out that a copy of it is at Leicester University.  I have sent them an email to see if I can get it out on loan.  I am doing a lot of research about Breedon because my great grandfather was John Gillies Shields who was the lord of the manor there, as well as Melbourne and Isley Walton.

It would be great if anyone has any history of Breedon that they could pass onto me.

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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #16 on: Monday 03 May 21 08:17 BST (UK) »
My go to site for old maps is The National Library of Scotland site, I also like their transparency overlay feature which allows two images to be blended together by making a 'modern' photo of the area to be bended onto a map. This allows features shown on the old maps to be located in the landscape as it looks today.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01qku/
The above site contains maps of various scales.
Nichols, A History of the Antiquities of the County of Leicester, Volume 3 Part 2, pages 685-692 covers Bredon, pages 693-694 Bredon Priory & pages 695-704 the Priory register (much of this in Latin).
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Re: Breedon on the Hill
« Reply #17 on: Monday 03 May 21 09:31 BST (UK) »
diddy

Since you're up and about already, how about some lookup's!  I've got sooooooooooooo many Leicestershire strays......  ;) :) ;D :o 8)

All the best for a speedy recovery.

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ROBERTS / ROBERT / ROBERTSON (Paternal) - Dunbartonshire/Stirlingshire, Scotland
NEWEY - Leicestershire, England
FITZGERALD - Co. Cork - Ireland
HOWLETT - Suffolk, England
PHILMORE - Wiltshire, England
CHAPMAN - Cornwall - England
NICHOLLS - Cornwall - England
SHAW - Nottinghamshire, England
PRITCHARD - Salop, England
ROBERTS (Maternal) - Surrey, England
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