Greetham, Rutland
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Rutland
Rutland is a landlocked county in central England, bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire and southeast by Peterborough and Northamptonshire....
in the East Midlands
East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of the regions of England, consisting of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It encompasses the combined area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and most of Lincolnshire...
of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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It lies on the B668 between the county town of Oakham
Oakham
-Oakham's horseshoes:Traditionally, members of royalty and peers of the realm who visited or passed through the town had to pay a forfeit in the form of a horseshoe...
and the A1 and on the north-south Viking Way
Viking Way
The Viking Way is a long distance footpath in England running between the Humber Bridge in North Lincolnshire and Oakham in Rutland. The Countryside Commission recognised the significance of the Viking Way as a high quality long distance walk linking other major routes in Eastern England, these...
long distance footpath running between the Humber Bridge
Humber Bridge
The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a 2,220 m single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981. It is the fifth-largest of its type in the world...
and Oakham.
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has a fine spire
Spire
A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from the Old English word spir, meaning a sprout, shoot, or stalk of grass....
, which can be seen from some distance.
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
The Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland, England. Founded in 1956, the trust now has 9,000 members helping care for over 30 nature reserves covering more than across the region...
owns Merry's Meadows nature reserve, a SSSI
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
in the parish which is important for species characteristic of unimproved grassland. To the east of the village just before the Sewstern
Sewstern
Sewstern is a village in the Melton district of east Leicestershire.It lies just south of Buckminster, with which it shares a , situated between the two villages, and a parish council...
Lane junction, just north of the B668 is Greetham Lime Quarry owned by the Dickerson Group of Waterbeach
Waterbeach
Waterbeach is a large fen-edge village located 6 miles north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire in England, and belongs to the administrative district of South Cambridgeshire. The parish covers an area of 23.26 km².- Village :...
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The village is home to three pubs, the Plough, the Black Horse Inn and the Wheatsheaf, all on the B668. A garden centre lies to the west of the village and to the east is the Greetham Valley golf course. On the A1 near Stretton
Stretton, Rutland
Stretton is a small village and civil parish in the county of Rutland, England, just off the A1 Great North Road. The Ecclesiastical parish of Stretton shares the same boundaries and is part of the Rutland deanery of the diocese of Peterborough. The incumbent is The Revd Richard Jan...
, was a former pub called the Olde Greetham Inn, now owned by Construction Interior Design. Towards Cottesmore on the right is the Greetham Garden Centre with Penny's Tearoom.
Notable Greethamers
- Professor Emeritus, Harold Lawton (27 July 1899 - 23 December 2005), centenarian, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and others, one of the last surviving World War One veterans, POW held in the Black Hole of Lille, Légion d'honneur. In World War II he briefed behind the lines operatives, and was listed in The Black BookThe Black BookThe Black Book was the post-war name given to the Sonderfahndungsliste G.B. , the list of prominent British to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II.-Background:The list was similar to earlier lists prepared by SS like the Special Prosecution...
of key people to be arrested upon a successful invasion of Britain.