Muston, Leicestershire

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Muston village
Muston is located in Leicestershire
Muston
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 Muston shown within Leicestershire
Population (2001 Census)
OS grid reference Latitude : 54.2167. Longitude : -0.3167
   – London  116 miles (187 km) 
Civil parish Bottesford
District Melton
Shire county Leicestershire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Nottingham
Postcode district NG13
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Rutland and Melton
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Muston (pronounced Musson) is a village in north Leicestershire, 18.6 miles east of Nottingham, 12.5 miles north of Melton Mowbray and five miles west of Grantham on the A52. It lies on the Leicestershire/Lincolnshire county border, two miles east of Bottesford, of which it forms part of the civil parish. The River Devon (pronounced Deevon) flows through the village.

Facilities

The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is in the Belvoir Group of parishes, based in Bottesford, and under the Diocese of Leicester.[1]

Muston Meadows is a nearby 41-hectare grassland nature reserve featuring 33 types of grass and over 100 other species of flowering plant. The reserve is notable for its colony of over 10,000 Green-winged Orchids.[2] The 14th-century cross on the village green is a Grade II* listed structure. [3] The Viking Way, a long-distance footpath between Humberside and Rutland, passes half a mile to the east of the village.

The village lies on the Bingham–Bottesford–Grantham bus route, which runs about once an hour in the daytime on weekdays. The local pub, the Muston Gap, occupies a Grade II listed building dating back to the 18th century.[4] It stands on the A52, a hundred metres from the Nottingham–Grantham railway line, where the nearest station is Bottesford (3 km). Muston also has a café (the Old Forge Tea Rooms), bed and breakfast facilities (Glebe House, a Grade II listed building,[5] and Chantry Cottage),[6] a children's play area,[7] and a village hall (Old School Muston).[8]

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14th-century stone cross

Muston of old

Muston belonged to the ancient hundred or wapentake of Framland.[9] Muston Gorse wharf on the Grantham Canal was the terminus of the private Belvoir Tramway to Belvoir Castle, which opened in 1793. Some detailed, amply illustrated information on Muston and its past appears on the Bottesford Living History website.[10]

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72): "MUSTON... stands on the river Devon, adjacent to the boundary with Lincolnshire, near the Grantham canal, 1½ mile E S E of Bottesford r. station, and 5½ W by N of Grantham; and has a post-office under Nottingham. The parish comprises 1,623 acres. Real property, £2,694. Pop., 360. Houses, 74. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a handsome structure; and consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and two porches, with central tower and spire. There are (sic) a Wesleyan chapel and a national school."[11]

Famous people

The poet George Crabbe (1754–1832) moved to Muston Rectory (later Glebe House)[12] from a curacy at Stathern in 1789, having previously been chaplain to the Duke of Rutland from 1782 to 1784.[13] He was a resident incumbent of Muston and of nearby West Allington, Lincolnshire until 1792,[14] but then an absentee until 1805. He remained resident for most of the period up to 1814, when he became rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire. His Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir was a pioneering study of the district.[15]

Property in Muston was owned by Nathaniel Hallowes (1582–1661) of Derby, an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1653 and again in 1659. He was an active Parliamentarian during the English Civil War.[16]

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  1. ↑ The other churches in the group are Barkestone-le-Vale, St Peter and St Paul; St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford; All Saints' Church, Harby; St Helen's Church, Plungar; St Peter's Church, Redmile : St Guthlac's Church, Stathern; St Michael & All Angels' Church, Hose; and St Remigius's Church, Long Clawson.
  2. ↑ Leicestershire's nature reserves. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Glebe House website. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Chantry Cottage site. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Fields in Trust. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  8. ↑ RCC (Leicestershire & Rutland) Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Rootsweb map. [1]
  10. ↑ Discovering Muston. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  11. ↑ Vision of Britain. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  12. ↑ Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  13. ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  14. ↑ [George Crabbe]: The Life of George Crabbe by his Son (London: Cresset Press, 1947), pp. x, 118–19 and 128–30; The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. Edited by A. J. and R. M. Carlyle (London: Oxford University Press, 1908). Introduction, pp. xvi–xvii. Further detail on the Bottesford History Group website: Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  15. ↑ Bibliotheca Topographia Britannica, VIII, Antiquities in Leicestershire, 1790. Reproduced on the Harby website. Retrieved 31 March 2011: [2]
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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