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Extract from the Breedon-on-the-Hill Travel Guides:
It's five miles northeast from Ashby to the village of
BREEDON-ON-THE-HILL
, which sits in the shadow of the large but partly quarried hill from which it takes its name. A steep footpath and a winding, half-mile road lead up from the village to the summit, where the fascinating church of
St Mary and St Hardulph
(daily 9.30am-6.30pm or dusk; free) occupies the site of an Iron Age hillfort and an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon monastery. Mostly dating from the thirteenth century, the church is kitted out with Georgian pews and pulpit and also, much rarer, contains a number of Anglo-Saxon carvings, both in the form of wall...
read the whole Breedon-on-the-Hill Travel Guides...
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