The Woodford family in Kibworth,
Leicestershire.
The family name of Woodford had been familiar in the villages of
Kibworth Harcourt and Kibworth Beauchamp for several centuries.
Indeed, the villages' history was written by a member of the family,
F.P.Woodford. His book has recently been re-published, and is on
sale in the village Post Office.
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Pollarded trees in Kibworth
churchyard
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The Woodford family in this area appears to be a cadet branch of the
family in Northamptonshire, principally from the village of Welford on
the border with Leicestershire.
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St Wilfrid's Parish Church, Kibworth
Summer 2003 |
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St Wilfrid's Parish Church, Kibworth
(from John Nichol's `The History and
Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire') |
The Church is largely of late 14th Century construction,
although the tower dates from 1832/6, replacing a spire that collapsed
most dramatically on 23 July 1825. The slender nature of the
spire is illustrated in John Nichol's
The History and
Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire, 1798.
It is said that one small local girl
ran home to tell her parents that she had just jumped over the church
steeple, only to be rebuked by her disbelieving family.
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Kibworth
churchyard in winter
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The Parish Church of St Wilfred and
its churchyard
serves both villages, and two porches on the north and south of the
nave are still known, respectively, as the Harcourt and Beauchamp
porches.
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Woodford
`graffiti' on external East end of Kibworth Church
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