Braunstone Leicestershire hotels:

Braunstone Town in Leicestershire. The earliest dated human find recorded is a bronze age axe (about 1,000bc) found in 1893. Next the building of the roman road from Leicester, through the site of the Narborough Road South to the High Cross near Sharnford. It is also evident that the Vikings of the early or later period had settlements in or near Braunstone, hence the names of Viking origins Lubbesthorpe, Countesthorpe, Enderby, Elmesthorpe, Cosby Kilby, Kirby etc. Throughout the above period Braunstone was covered with forest as were most county areas surrounding in what was known as Leicester Forest. But like most forests these were composed of a series of large woods containing small early settlements or hamlets inter-connected by rough trackways from which most of our public field paths owe their origin. Braunstone is mentioned in the Domesday Book 1086). "Braunstone six plough lands, all but for oxgangs, in Braunstone which is the reign of The Confessor had been valued at twenty shillings, were worth sixty shillings at the general survey and were then held by the son of Robert Burdet. The land was equal to four ploughs, one was in Demesne, and four Bondmen; and two socmen and five villains, with one border, had two ploughs. There was a wood five furlongs long and three broad, and there were five acres of meadow. Two socment abiding in Braunstone had five oxgangs of land in Lubbesthorpe; and jointly with ten villains and six borders in that lordship had two ploughs and five ploughing oxen. The above lands were held by Robert Burdet under Hugo de Grantemesnil one of William I s most powerful barons..........