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bibliography Historic England database of Listed Buildings; online at historicengland.org.uk Mills Archive; online at catalogue.millsarchive.org/ Open Domesday; online at opendomesday.org/place/ Ordnance Survey 1884 6" maps; online at maps.nls.uk Rutland Record; Volumes 1 to 50 online as free PDFs at www.rutlandhistory.org/rr1-10.htm Victoria County History: Rutland part 1 (1908) and part 2 (1935). anon., no date, 'Woodborough’s Heritage: Appendix – General history of Nottinghamshire pinfolds'; online at www.woodborough-heritage.org.uk/pinfoldappendix.html anon., 1982, Turnpikes and the Royal Mail of Rutland, Rutland Local History Society. Barber, John L., 1984, 'Thomas Crapper and manhole covers', Rutland Record, 4, 152–3; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr04.pdf Barrett, D.W., 1880, Life and Work Among the Navvies. Billson, Charles J., 1895, Leicestershire and Rutland: County Folk-lore, Folklore Society. Blore, T., 1811, The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland. Bord, Janet, 2008, Holy Wells in Britain: A guide, Heart of Albion. Bourne, Jill, 1981, Place-names of Leicestershire and Rutland (2nd edn), Leicestershire Libraries. Bourne, Jill, 2003, Understanding Leicestershire and Rutland Place-names, Heart of Albion. Bourne, Jill, and Amanda Goode (eds), The Rutland Hearth Tax 1665, Rutland Record Society. Brandwood, Geoffrey K., 2002, Bringing Them to Their Knees: Church building and restoration in Leicestershire and Rutland 1800–1914, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Brown, Mike, 1999, Tiger Tales and Ales: A Directory of Leicestershire Brewers (including Rutland) 1400–1999, Brewery History Society. Cantor, L.M., 1976–7, 'The medieval parks of Leicestershire, part 2, Transactions of Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 53, 30–41; online at archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3252440 Cantor, L.M., 1980, 'The medieval hunting grounds of Rutland', Rutland Record, 1, 13–18; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr01.pdf Cantor, Leonard, 1998, The Historic Country Houses of Leicestershire and Rutland, Kairos Press. Cavanagh, Terry and Alison Yarrington, 2000, Public Sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland, Liverpool University Press. Clough, T.H.McK., 1987, The Horseshoes of Oakham Castle. Clough, T.H.McK., Ann Dornier and R.A. Rutland, 1975, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Leicestershire including Rutland, Leicestershire Museums. Cole, T.W., no date (pre-1945), Origin and Use of Church Scratchdials, The Hill Bookshop, London. Cooper, Nicholas J., 2000, The Archaeology of Rutland Water, University of Leicester Archaeological Services. Cornwall, Julian (ed), 1980, Tudor Rutland, Rutland Record Society (primarily transcripts of the 1522 Military Survey and 1524–5 Lay Subsidy). Cossons, Arthur, 2003, The Turnpike Roads of Leicestershire and Rutland, Kairos Press. Cox, Barrie, 1990, 'Rutland in the Danelaw: A field-names perspective', Journal of the English Place-name Society, 22, 7–22. Cox, Barrie, 1994, The Place-names of Rutland, English Place-name Society. Cramp, Rosemary, Jane Hawkes and Joanna Storey, 2026, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Vol.15 East Midlands, British Academy. Creighton, Oliver, 1999, 'Early castles in the medieval landscape of Rutland' in Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol.73 pp19–33; online at archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3247317 Davies, Richard, 1984, 'Church orientation in Rutland', Rutland Record, 4, 142–3; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr04.pdf Dickinson, Gillian (ed.), 1983, Rutland Churches before Restoration, Barrowden Books. [This includes illustrations prepared in 1838–9 of fifty-two of the county's churches.] Dickinson, Gillian, 1984, Rutland: A guide and gazetteer, Barrowden Books. Evans, Stuart, 2024, 'The Iron Age landscape of the Salt Way', Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 'blog'; online at lahs.org.uk/blog/the-iron-age-landscape-of-the-salt-way Galitzine, Yuri, 1980, 'The Quaintree Hall House, Braunston, Rutland', Rutland Record Vol.1 p25–31; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr01.pdf Hall, Jeremy, 2021, 'Windmills of my mind'; online at rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk/windmills-of-my-mind/ Harte, Jeremy, 2008, English Holy Wells: A sourcebook, Heart of Albion. Hartley, Robert F., 1983, The Medieval Earthworks of Rutland: A survey, Leicestershire Museums. Hopewell, Jeffery, 1989, Leicestershire and Rutland, Shire Publications. Horne, E., 1929, Scratch Dials, Simpkin Marshall Hoskins, W.G., 1949, Rutland, City of Leicester Publicity Dept. Hoskins, W.G., 1963, Shell Guide to Rutland, Faber. Hughes, Valerie, 2014, Uppingham in the 18th Century, Uppingham Local History and Studies Group; online at www.uppinghamhistory.org.uk/18thc/uppingham18c.pdf Lacey, John, 2025, 'Ancient trails and salt ways in south Leicestershire', Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 'blog'; online at lahs.org.uk/blog/ancient-trails-salt-ways-in-south-leicestershire Lee, Joyce and Jon Dean, 1991, Who's Buried Where in Leicestershire, Leicestershire Libraries. Lee, Joyce and Jon Dean, 1995, Curiosities of Leicestershire and Rutland, S.B. Publications. Lee, Michael, 1993, 'A turret clock at St Mary's Edith Weston', Rutland Record, 13, 129–35; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr13.pdf Lee, Sue, and Jean Orpin, 2007, 'Empingham: An entire model village' in The Heritage of Rutland Water: 5 (Rutland Record Series); online at www.rutlandhistory.org/HRW/chapter-007 Liddle, Peter, 1983, A Guide to Twenty Sites in Leicestershire, Leicestershire Museums. Liddle, Peter, 1995, 'Roman small towns in Leicestershire', in A.E. Brown (ed), Roman Small Towns in Eastern England and Beyond, Oxbow. Liddle, Peter and Jeremy Taylor, 2019, 'Excavations by Ernest Greenfield of a Roman temple complex at Thistleton, Rutland 1960–63: An overview', Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol.92 p79–114; online at archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3245739&recordType=Journal Lott, Graham, 2001, 'Geology and building stones in the East Midlands', Mercian Geologist, 15 (2), 97–122. Matthews, Bryan, 1978, The Book of Rutland, Barracuda Books. Matthews, Max, 2002, Sepulchral Effigies in Leicestershire and Rutland, Heart of Albion; online at www.hoap.co.uk/effigies/index.htm Meadows, Ian, 1999, 'Ketton Quarry', Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 73, 119–23. [These bibliographical details are probably wrong but I cannot track down the correct details.] Mee, Arthur, 1937, The King's England: Leicestershire and Rutland, Hodder and Stoughton. Moon, Nigel, no date (post-2009), 'Whissendine Windmill'; online at www.whissendine.net/whissendine-windmill/ Ovens, Robert and Sheila Sleath, 2002, Time in Rutland: A History and Gazetteer of the Bells, Clocks and Sundials of Rutland, Rutland Local History and Record Society. Palmer, Marilyn and Peter Neaverson, 1991, 'Industrial archaeology in Rutland', Rutland Record, 11, 18–24; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr24.pdf Palmer, Roy, 1985, The Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland, Sycamore Press. Parsons, David, 1996, ‘Before the parish: the church in Anglo-Saxon Leicestershire’, in J. Bourne (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Landscapes in the East Midlands, Leicestershire Museums Arts and Records Service. Pevsner, Nikolaus (revised by E. Williamson and G. Brandwood), 1984, Leicestershire and Rutland (The Buildings of England series), 2nd edn (reprinted with corrections 1998), Penguin. Phillips, G, 1920, Rutland and the Great War. Phythian-Adams, Charles, 1977, 'Rutland reconsidered' in Ann Dornier (ed), Mercian Studies, Leicester University Press. Phythian-Adams, Charles, 1980, 'The emergence of Rutland and the making of the realm', Rutland Record, 1, 5–12; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr01.pdf Phythian-Adams, Charles (ed), 1986, The Norman Conquest of Leicestershire and Rutland, Leicestershire Museums. Rodgers, A. (ed), 1965, The Making of Stamford. Ryder, Ian E., Common Right and Private Interest: Rutland’s Common Fields and their Enclosure, Rutland Local History & Record Society Occasional Publication No 8; online at www.rutlandhistory.org/pdf/commonright.pdf Sargent, W., 1950, Oakham Through the Centuries. Sharpling, Paul, 1997, Stained Glass in Rutland Churches, Rutland Local History and Record Society. Squires, Anthony and Michael Jeeves, 1994, Leicestershire and Rutland Woodlands Past and Present, Kairos Press. Smithson, Freda, no date (post 1996), 'Mills in Langham'; online at www.langhaminrutland.org.uk/mills.htm Taylor, Jeremy , 2010, 'The Welland Valley Survey: An Iron Age and Roman landscape in the making.' Lecture given to Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 25 February. Tew. D, 1968, The Oakham Canal. Thomas, John and Roger Jacobi, 2001, 'Glaston', Current Archaeology, No.173, 180–4. Thorp, Alex, 2021, 'Coronavirus: "Baking boom saw them fighting over my flour"'; BBC News; online at www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leicestershire-58358636 [Whissendine Windmill] Thorn, Frank (ed.), 1980, Domesday Book: Rutland, Phillimore. Timby, Jane, 1996, The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Empingham II, Rutland, Oxbow Books. Traylen, A.R., 1980, Dialect in Rutland, published by author. Trubshaw, Bob, 1994, 'Goddess or queen? The enigmatic carving at Braunston in Rutland', Mercian Mysteries, 21, 4–5; online at www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/braunstn.htm Trubshaw, Bob, 1995, Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland, Heart of Albion Press; later edition online at www.hoap.co.uk/lkl.pdf Trubshaw, Bob, 2002, Explore Folklore, Heart of Albion Press; online at www.hoap.co.uk/explore_folklore.pdf Trubshaw, Bob, 2003, Rutland Village by Village, Heart of Albion Press; online at www.hoap.co.uk/rutland_village_by_village.pdf Trubshaw, Bob, 2015, Medieval Carvings in Colour, Heart of Albion Press; online at www.hoap.co.uk/catalogue.htm#MCIC Trubshaw, Bob, 2019, Minsters and Valleys: A topographical comparison of seventh and eighth century land use in Leicestershire and Wiltshire, Heart of Albion Press; online at www.hoap.co.uk/minsters_and_valleys01.pdf Trubshaw, Bob, 2021, 'Eleventh century water mills', Barrowby Until Now; online at www.hoap.co.uk/barrowby/mills.htm Trubshaw, Bob, 2024, Leicestershire and Rutland's Holy Wells, Heart of Albion Press; online at www.hoap.co.uk/leics_rutland_holy_wells.pdf Trubshaw, Bob, 2025, Conversations in Churchyards: A field guide to the social history of memorials, Heart of Albion; online at www.hoap.co.uk/conversations_in_churchyards.pdf Trubshaw, Bob, 2025, 'The Indian-inspired "Islamesque" in Rutland', Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 'blog'; online at lahs.org.uk/blog/the-indian-inspired-islamesque-in-rutland Trubshaw, Bob, 2025, 'Saltways of the Vale', Vale of Belvoir Chronicle; online at www.hoap.co.uk/chronicle/saltways.htm Waites, Brian, 1982, Exploring Rutland, Leicester Libraries. Whitelaw, Jeffrey W., 1996, Hidden Leicestershire and Rutland, Countryside Books. Wright, James, 1684, History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland; reprinted 1973. Also numerous 1990s church guide leaflets, mostly anonymous. Back to top of this page     Back to home page   This website does not gather or store any visitor information. Copyright Bob Trubshaw 2026 No unauthorised copying or reproduction except if all following conditions apply a: Copy is complete (including this copyright statement). b: No changes are made. c: No charge is made. www.hoap.co.uk/rutland

Rutland's history home page what's new? glossary bibliography Rutland's geology Rutland's boundaries Rutland's rivers long, long ago prehistoric Rutland Roman Rutland long ago Anglo-Saxon Rutland Rutland's place-names waterborne transport around the sixth century Rutland's early churches Anglo-Saxon sculpture in Rutland The Matter of Rutland what the Normans did for Rutland Romanesque sculpture in Rutland Rutland in medieval times Rutland's scratch dials Rutland's medieval carvings Rutland's sepulchral effigies Rutland's saltways Rutland in Tudor times Dissolution in Rutland not that long ago Rutland in the 17th century pinfolds and pounds in Rutland dovecotes in Rutland Rutland in the 18th century turnpiking Rutland Rutland's springs and wells changes in Rutland's agriculture since 1800 seems like yesterday Rutland's dialect Rutland's folk customs travellers in Rutland watermills and windmills in Rutland breweries in Rutland gasworks in Rutland ironstone quarrying in Rutland Zeppelins over Rutland redundant telephone exchanges in Rutland Second World War in Rutland WWII airfields and pillboxes in Rutland the making of Rutland Water Rutland Weekend Television free online history resources Victoria County History: Rutland volume one Victoria County History: Rutland volume two free PDFs of Rutland Record issues 1 to 50 old OS maps Historic England Listed buildings database Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland Open Domesday English Place-Name Society database Wikipedia list of places in Rutland (with links to village entries) Wikipedia list of people from Rutland researching and writing local history getting started free advice from 2005 asking curious questions (YouTube video) local history groups in and around Rutland Belton-in-Rutland History Society Cottesmore History and Archaeology Group Langham Village History Group Lyddington Manor History Society Rutland Local History and Record Society Uppingham Local History Study Group you may also be interested in free PDFs written by Bob Trubshaw Earliest Churches in Nottinghamshire How Anglo-Saxons Found Their Way Anglo-Saxon Leicestershire Conversations in Churchyards Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland Bob Trubshaw's YouTube channel Introduction to medieval carvings Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque carvings How Anglo-Saxons found their way Anglo-Saxon shrines at fords Meetings at triangles Rota's Land and Franni's Land Reading Romanesque fonts Church and manor The significances of square headdresses Early churches and waterborne trade Charnwood slate gravestones and C18th trade routes Ironstone quarries of Leicestershire Roman roads in north-east Leicestershire Salt ways in Leicestershire Why Melton Mowbray needed to called 'middle town' Evolving Anglo-Saxon agriculture Nottinghamshire's earliest churches Ploughs not piety? Economic regeneration in the C7th Were Anglo-Saxon weaving huts women-only places? Vale of Belvoir Chronicle Barrowby Until Now website Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland