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Elmcroft Road, LUTTERWORTH, LE17 6HX

Cast iron post by the A4304 (was A427), in parish of NORTH KILWORTH (HARBOROUGH District), Station Road; by "Coltone", East of village centre, on the verge, on South side of road. Illston iron casting, erected by the Market Harborough & Coventry turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : TO / LUTTERWORTH / 5 / MILES : : {Royal Arms of Queen Victoria} : : TO / HARBORO / 8 / MILES : Maker:- : JOSEPH / ILLSTON / VICTORIA FOUNDRY / LEICESTER : Grade II Listed. List Entry Number: 1294817 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1294817 Milestone Society National ID: LE_LUMH05.

Due to bad experiences you have to pay for petrol in advance and a machine allows it to fill the exact amount and stop on its own. I also recommend the toilets if anyone's in the area.

Cranmer Lane is a quiet road leading off The Green in the centre of North Kilworth down to The Bogs - a former gravel pit now a wetland nature reserve. Until the turnpike road was built in 1755 (now the A4304) it was the road out of the village to Market Harborough.

This delightful thatched cottage on Cranmer Lane looks idyllic nowadays but in the years after 1890 it would have been on the route to the village rubbish tip in the area now known as The Bogs. It was grade II listed in 1992 and is of 17th century origin, or possibly earlier, with later alterations. A snippet extracted from the Market Harborough Advertiser of December 1938, and reprinted in the North Kilworth News in 2018, tells of a Mr James F. Oxley who lived in this house at the time and retired after working as a signalman at Welford & North Kilworth station for 40 years

The Swan Public House, one of two Pubs close together.

The houses in this view are on the east side of The Green; the village war memorial, which was unveiled in 1920, is in the foreground.

This is a close up of some of the names at the foot of North Kilworth's war memorial. It is worth noting that the list includes men who served and returned as well as those who lost their lives. See Image for further details.

The Bogs is a 0.49 hectare of wetland fed by springs immediately to the north of North Kilworth Millennium Green. The area was once used for gravel extraction and, from 1890, as the village rubbish dump. It has now been cleaned up and is home to a variety of plant species including butterbur, which can be seen flowering in this springtime view. After flowering, butterbur (petasites hybridus), also known as wild rhubarb, grows very large leaves, up to 1m in diameter, which used to be used to preserve butter.