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18-815: Chadwell may refer to: Locations [ edit ] Chadwell, Leicestershire Chadwell, Shropshire Chadwell Heath in the London Boroughs of Barking-and-Dagenham, and Redbridge Chadwell Springs in Hertfordshire - one of the sources of the New River Chadwell St Mary in Thurrock People with the surname [ edit ] Jamey Chadwell (born 1977), American football coach William Chadwell (born 1614), English lawyer and politician Topics referred to by

36-575: A chapel, with parts of the structure dating back to the 12th century. Not long after the Inclosure Act of 1773 , it was recorded that 750 acres of land in and around "Caudwell and Wykeham" belonged to the "Parish of Rodeley". Among the parish landowners, influential figures included the lord of the manor, Thomas Babington, esq., the Bishop of Ely and the Brethren of Wigston's Hospital . in 1790,

54-452: A church. Other listed buildings and structures in the village include: Spring Cottage, Manor Farmhouse, and two Chest Tomb's located a few metres south of the southern porch of the Church of St Mary; all are Grade II Listed . The village is situated on Oadby Member Till that is underpinned by three bands of Middle Jurassic bedrock geology formations; from the approach into the village from

72-483: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chadwell, Leicestershire Chadwell is a small village in the district of Melton , which is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire , and is part of the civil parish of Scalford , which also includes the neighbouring hamlet of Wycomb . Until 1 April 1936 it

90-412: Is worthy of a serious study, survey, and television documentary. The first family to move in did so in 1965, even though the village lacked many amenities at the time, including street lighting. The village is served by Broomfield County Primary School , which was opened in 1968. The school was expanded in 1977 to cope with the number of children on the village. The original design made no mention of

108-652: The Old English gos-cot meaning 'cottages where geese are kept', or from an Anglo-Saxon named Gosa. The name is taken from the East Goscote Hundred , one of the old hundreds (an area of land purported to be able to support 100 families) of Leicestershire. The Goscote Hundred (or Wapentake ) is mentioned in the Domesday Book , this was later split into the West and East Goscote Hundreds. It

126-471: The War Office . A report of 1951 has it designated as 78 COSD ( Command Ordnance Sub Depot ). It was decommissioned in 1959, and subsequently bought for housing development by Jelson Homes . This development began in 1962. There were two enormous shell storage bunkers that could not be demolished, and these were earthed over and landscaped. They became known locally as the 'Mound', and are now part of

144-600: The Church of St Mary was still listed as a chapel, but the two settlements, and their surrounding 750 acres, were considered an outlier of East-Goscote Hundred , within the Hundred of Framland. By 1879, the Waltham branch of the Great Northern Railway ran between the two settlements, adding a railway station on the western end of the village. It was by this point, the Church of St Mary was identified as

162-489: The adjacent playing fields. These were opened to the public as part of the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977, and there is a plaque near Long Furrow noting this fact. The road called Long Furrow serves as a perimeter around the central part of the village; it also serves to mark the boundary of the former ordnance site. What is less well known is the huge network of large reinforced concrete tunnels that lay beneath

180-467: The electricity still worked. Until the mid-1970s, during which the village was still under construction, both entrances to the 'Mound' were open, and often visited by local children. A map of the actual tunnel layout did exist in the Library of Wreake Valley Community College , Syston, but was misplaced to keep the tunnels hidden. The whole structure, and stories that lay beneath its present inhabitants

198-479: The mid-1980s, after many issues. Now they have a magazine called Long Furrow . Adjacent to the village, north of the railway line, is Beedles Lake Golf Club. East Goscote ward is represented on Charnwood Borough Council by Green Party Councillor Laurie Needham. Before 2015, it was represented by Cathy Duffy, the only elected representative in the locality from the far-right British National Party (BNP). Charnwood Borough Council has stated that there will be

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216-568: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chadwell . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. See also [ edit ] Shadwell (disambiguation) Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chadwell&oldid=1254537030 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

234-566: The village hall, and this was built by Jelson Homes free of charge. It was the home of religious services until the completion of St Hilda's Church in 1976. The first village vicar was the Reverend Dudley Gummer, who took services in his own house in Coopers Nook, until the village hall was built. The village had its own magazine East Goscote Community News , which was first published in 1969. It ceased publication in

252-512: The west is Whitby Mudstone (pale-grey mudstone, 174-183 million years old), followed by Marlstone Rock (Iron-grainstone, 174-191 million years old), then after the church it is Dyrham Formation (grey siltstone, 183-191 million years old). The superficial deposits of the Oadby Member Till give way to colluvium and alluvial river deposits as you head down towards the stream. East Goscote The village's name either derives from

270-403: The whole village; where the munitions were fitted with their warheads , and new top secret weapons prototypes were put together. There are several entrances to these workshops and tunnels located throughout the village, but each have been carefully landscaped to conceal their identity. Council representatives did enter these chambers, and found that the tunnels were in excellent condition, and

288-660: Was in the parish of Wycomb and Chadwell . The village name (originally recorded as Caudwell) means 'spring/stream which is cold'. Chadwell is half a mile east of Wycomb , and they share the Church of St. Mary in the same ecclesiastical parish. The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building. Mentioned in the Domesday Book Survey of 1086, Chadwell was a settlement in the Hundred of Framland , Leicestershire. It had an estimate recorded population of 23 households in 1086. The Church of St Mary, started out as

306-534: Was known as the Queniborough Depot, since that was the closest village to it. It began production in March/April 1942. The aerial photograph reveals its former road layout. According to English Heritage 's reference work Dangerous Energy , it was operating Groups 8-10 of ROF filling types (High Explosives received, mixed, and put into bombs and warheads). By 1944, it was temporarily occupied by

324-485: Was the first new village to be created in Leicestershire since Domesday. The village is built on the site of a former British Army supply depot. According to Ministry of Defence (MoD) files, the site was originally constructed in 1940 (finished September 1942) by Holloway Brothers, and was an Agency Filling Factory run by Lever Brothers/ Unilever as No.10 Royal Ordnance Factory (10 ROF). At that time, it

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