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Stow Hill, MELTON MOWBRAY, LE14 4QZ

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 146.143m above Newlyn Datum verified 1970

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the near corner, right hand face, of the house

This road leads to Skillington. Sproxton is pronounced "Sproson" and is one of a group of villages with similar spelling and pronunciation.

This was the edge of the village and the majority of the cottages and houses on the south east side of the road are 19th century or older. At the upper end of School Hill they have an uninterrupted view of the church which sits on the hill that dominates the village to the north, see Image

On Church Lane and appropriately named at the top of School Hill.

Early 19th century farmhouse, coursed ironstone with Pantiled Roof, Listed Grade II.

The road bends to the right at climbs up the hill to the church which is out of sight behind the building on the right. Note the orange ironstone used for building and the dark glazed tiles. These are Bottesford Blues, (although they're black!), and are clay pantiles finished with a hard wearing glaze. Locally made in Bottesford, Image and Image, in the 18th and 19th centuries these are a common sight in the north east Leicestershire villages. The secret glaze "recipe" was lost when the tile works closed but it is rumoured that the secret has been discovered and they will be made again. In the mean time the only supply of anything similar, if wanted for renovation work, is from Holland.

On the junction of Church Lane and Stow Hill. If you look at the map you'll see that the church is quite a way out of the village, see Image, so the vicar would have had a pleasant walk every Sunday.