Wymeswold
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Wymeswold is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. It is in the north of Leicestershire, and north-east of Loughborough. It has a population of about 1,000.
The village was formerly the site of RAF Wymeswold and home of Lymeswold cheese.
It is close to Prestwold and Burton on the Worlds in Leicestershire, and the Nottinghamshire villages of Rempstone and Willoughby-on-the-Worlds.
The church contains the Leeke memorial to judge William Leeke who was Lord of the Manor of Wymeswold in the mid-17th century. His widow presented the church with a silver flagon and patten that are now in the Charnwood museum.
One of the parishes in which Henry Alford wrote a lot of his christian hymns.
Now it is a mere commuter village to the town of Loughborough, and cities of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby, with the services to suit.
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