Village sign - Pickwell, Leicestershire
Posted by: SMacB
N 52° 41.665 W 000° 50.430
30U E 645936 N 5840466
A small plaque on the Pickwell village sign indicates it was made for the millennium.
Waymark Code: WMYZTY
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/16/2018
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A small plaque on the Pickwell village sign indicates it was made for the millennium.
The sign has at the top the village church, and on the name plate small images of a cricket bat, a sheep, a miner, and the war memorial. It has a small shield with the date 2000 AD.
"Pickwell is a small, hill-crest village 5 miles (8.0 km) south-east of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire which used to have an ecclesiastical parish of its own and is since the early 20th century has been in the civil parish and Church of England parish of Somerby which is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the SSW, connected by an almost straight lane. The population of the village at the 2011 census was included in the civil parish of Somerby.
A spring rises here as the source of a small stream which explains the well part of its name."
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