Seagrave is a village and

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in the Charnwood district of

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, England. It has a population of around 500, measured at the 2011 census as 546, It is north of

Sileby Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is located between Leicester and Loughborough. The village is close to Barrow upon Soar, Mountsorrel, Ratcliff ...

and close to

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and

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History

One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

where named Segrave, it is listed amongst the lands in the

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given to

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by King

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. The land consisted of work for one plough and four acres of meadow. By the twelfth century, Seagrave was owned by the de Segrave family, who built a fortified manor house in the parish. Their familial coat of arms was later adopted by the village. In March 1234,

Richard Siward Richard Siward (died 1248) was a distinguished 13th-century soldier, adventurer and banneret. He rose from obscurity to become a member of King Henry III's Royal Council and husband of Philippa Basset, the widowed countess of Warwick. Origins L ...

, at the head of a company of outlaws, ravaged Stephen de Segrave's native place, evidently Seagrave; burnt his fine houses, oxen, and stores of grain, and carried off many valuable horses and rich spoil. Later, the same band ravaged

Alconbury Alconbury is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Alconbury is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being an historic county of England. Alconbury lies approximatel ...

, and burnt his buildings there. In 1346, population growth led to the division of the wapentake; for judicial matters, Seagrave was in the

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East Goscote East Goscote is a modern village and civil parish in the Borough of Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England, just north of the market town of Syston. It is a medium-sized village, with a population measured at 2,866 in the 2011 census ...

. The effects of parliamentary enclosure on social and economic aspects of England and its people can be understood by examining the results of the ( 33 Geo. 2. c. ''25'' ), which effectively converted copyhold tenure in the open fields to freehold tenure. The village attempts to preserve its better buildings through repurposing. The Primitive Methodist chapel was converted into a house which still has the original nameplate, with Primitive spelled in an obsolete form as 'Primative'.

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opened a new state of the art training facility on the site of the village's former Park Hill Golf Club in December 2020.

1963 air crash

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crashed on 29 July 1963. The two pilots ejected. One was 19 year old Pilot Officer Paul Fisher of Strood, from

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. The instructor, 42 year old Alex Naismith, was taken to

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with a back injury. The pilots were given a cup of tea at the Black Cat Cafe at Six Hills, on the A46. Anthony Wilkin of Willowbrook Road, saw the pilots land. July 1963 air crash
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Gallery

Notable people

Gilbert de Segrave of Segrave, High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1193, father of

Stephen de Segrave Stephen de Segrave (or Seagrove or Stephen Segrave or Stephen of Seagrave) (c. 1171 – 9 November 1241) was a medieval Chief Justiciar of England. Life He was born as the son of a certain Gilbert de Segrave of Segrave in Leicestershire, who h ...

(c. 1171 – 1241) Chief Justiciar of England.

Robert Burton Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic ''The Anatomy of Melancholy''. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton a ...

, author of ''

The Anatomy of Melancholy ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' (full title: ''The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Ph ...

'', was rector of All Saints' Church in Seagrave from 1630 to his death.

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Villages in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Charnwood {{Leicestershire-geo-stub