To celebrate the Millennium the Charley Heritage Group
was formed with the aim of producing a Parish Map using the talents of
people living in the Parish. It was to record places and events, in a
pictorial fashion, in Charley at that time. To accompany the Map two booklets
were produced.
The Map Booklet that gave a brief written account of the
items and events of interest in Charley that were depicted by the small
sketches around the Maps border.
The Field Name Booklet that listed the names used by the
Farmers in the parish to identify their fields by in the year 2000 .
The finished project was enthusiastically received and
the hand-drawn and hand-painted map, measuring five and a half feet by
four and a half feet is visually excellent. Smaller versions were printed
and presented along with a copy of each booklet to every household in
the Parish.
The original map is displayed in the Guest House of Mount
St Bernard Abbey and a full-scale copy hangs in the Parish Rooms at Oaks
in Charnwood.
Funding was obtained from "Awards For All" enabling
the Group to produce the maps and booklets.
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