c. 2500 - 700 BCE

Bronze Age cremations and mounds on south boundary near St Peters and at Costock

Prehistory

c. 700 BCE - 100 CE

Iron Age settlement (round house and enclosures) at St Peters

c. 100 - 400

Roman coin hoard found in railway cutting. Several Roman sites in locality

Romans in Britain

c. 450 - 800

Anglo-Saxon burials on southern boundary

Saxon kingdoms

c. 500 - 600

Saxon bronze mount and drinking horn found at St Peters (“Rempstone Mount”)

c. 700 – 1000

Saxon settlement on present village site – “Lecche”

Saxon unification

c. 1000 - 1066

Danes in the area

Danish kingdom

1066

Saxon leaders Godric and Siward

Battle of Hastings

1086

Domesday : 38 families. Henry de Ferrers, Roger de Bully and Ernulf the priest

Normans under William I

11^th century

St Leonard’s stone church in Saxon style. Probable earlier St Helena’s at West Leake

1207

First Rector William of Leke. c. 1200 Shirley, Staunton and Leek families

Early Medieval period

1318

Treaty of Leek between Earl of Lancaster and King Edward II

1347

Two Rectors appointed in one year (Robert de Clypston and Hugh de Wymeswold) which might be evidence of the Black Death in the village

1406

Court roll identifies 12 frank pledgemen, and 11 non-attenders were fined

c. 1400 - 1600

Many timber-framed cruck houses

Late Medieval - Tudor

1637

Townlands Trust

Charles I

1644

Civil War skirmish at Costock

Civil War 1642-49

1674/5

John Bley born at Brookside Farm

Charles II

1690

Bley apprenticed to Distillers Company in London

William and Mary

1724

Bley’s school built on the Nook

George ii

1731

Bley buried in East Leake

18^th century

Early workhouse in the Nook

Industrial Revolution

1757

Baptist chapel

1798

Wesleyan Methodist chapel

George III

1798

Enclosure Act ends medieval open field system of farming

1824

Anglican schoolroom on the Green. Extended 1850

1830

Mills family set up basketmaking

1841

Census identifies 7 lace bobbin net makers

Queen Victoria

1844

119 framework knitters

1864

Rev James Garner, President of Annual Conference of Primitive Methodists

1874

School Board replaces Bley school

1881

Census : 14 “plaster miners”

1888

Rev Sydney Pell Potter appointed Rector

1891

Barnstone Lias and Cement Co. starts gypsum mines at Hotchley Hill. BPB 1936

1894

Parish Councils Act replaces Vestry as local government

1896

First street lamps - oil

1898

Great Central railway with station at East Leake

1919

Council houses at Kirk Lee

George V

1936

First piped water and sewerage

1948

Gotham Road council estate – “Tin Town”

George VI

1950s

Village centre redeveloped and new housing estates begun – ongoing.

Lantern Lane Primary (1952) and Harry Carlton Secondary (1956) schools

Elizabeth II

1952

Lantern Lane Primary School

1956

Harry Carlton Secondary School