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The Virtual Village Blue Plaque Walk 

          

Foreword by the Charity Chairman

The Interactive Blue Plaque Walk Map

1.  The Charity of Thomas Barton

2.  The Church of St Margaret of Antioch

3.  The Old Hall

4.  The Moats and Tumulus

5.  The Mansion House and Parke

6.  The Mangle House

7.  The Free Grammar School

8.  Crown Hill

9.  The Ashby de la Zouch Canal

10. The Ashby & Nuneaton Joint Railway
 
Acknowledgements

The Editor of this booklet and the Charity Trustees wish to thank the following people.

First of all, every owner upon whose property permission was so generously given to attach one of the Blue Plaques.

Alan F. Cook the Nuneaton Historian, who so diligently investigated the life of the Charity Founder, Thomas Barton and the History of his Charity.

Tony Collett, Desmond and Rosamund Hall, and Jill and Gordon Webster for their valued contributions in the preparation of this guide and their permission to use various sources of information in their possession.

To lan Reid, of Stoke Golding and T. H. McKClough, Curator of the Rutland County Museum.

Leicestershire County Council for their most generous 'Local Landmark Grant' towards the production of the plaques.

Martyn Fisher, A R P S, Photographer of Stoke Golding for the photographs.

Penny Baker for the pencil sketches throughout.

Bob Ingram for preparing the information in the Blue Plaque booklet for the web site.

Sources

"No mud in his eye - being a History of Thomas Barton 1400 A.D. and his Charity."  by Alan F. Cook & The Trustees of the Charity of Thomas Barton

"St Margaret's Church Stoke Golding" by A. J. Collett

"Collection for The History of Stoke Golding, in The County of Leicester"
 by  W. T. Hall M.B.E.

"The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 1811”  by J. Nichols F.S.A

 "Laundry Bygones" by Pamela Sambrook

"The Story of Stoke Golding"  by Jill Webster

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