Knaptoft: The very heart of England (opens in new tab)

The passage below is from W\.G\. Hoskins' Midland England\. Published as part of Batsford's The Face of Britain series, that book captures the charm of this part of the world better than any other I know: There is, for example, the green deserted country around Knaptoft in the south of Leicestershire, where the pastures of central England hardly touch five hundred feet above the sea and yet they are the watershed between Trent and Severn; and streams gather here that end in the Humber, the Wa...