ABOUT GOADBY MARWOOD HISTORY GROUP
The Goadby Marwood History Group aims to document the history of Goadby Marwood and provide an archive of local information that will be of value to anyone with a connection to our beautiful village. It is hoped that our website provides pleasure for the casual browser and helps people to understand what makes Goadby Marwood the village it is today.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT PROJECT
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of The Belvoir Sale. By the 1920s the Duke of Rutland estate, like many others, was facing a cash crisis. The Duke had rolled over debts incurred when Belvoir Castle was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th Century, and this, confounded by the decline in agricultural income and higher taxation imposed after the Great War, forced the 8th Duke to sell over 13,000 acres of his beloved Belvoir estate. Whilst unquestionably an unhappy event for the Rutland family, the 1920 sale gave many Vale of Belvoir families the first opportunity to own their own property. The event changed the social structure of the entire area and laid the foundations of the villages as we know them today. To mark the occasion, The Goadby Marwood History Group hopes this year to tell the story of the sale, and to chart the history of some of the most notable properties in the village and the families who lived in them.
2020 also marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Goadby Marwood History Group, in collaboration with The Field Detectives, is currently structuring a project to identify the exact location of the Lancaster bomber that crashed near the village in 1942, killing all eight crew. The plane was serial no. R5694, code EM-F, piloted by New Zealander, Raymund Hannan. It was part of 207 Squadron at Langar and was returning from an attempted raid on Bad Zwischenahn in Germany on November 25th, when it crashed near Goadby. We hope to tell the stories of the eight young men who died and ultimately erect a memorial at the crash site.
To find out more about Goadby Marwood History Group, you can visit their website here.
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