Breedon on the Hill

Photo of Breedon on the Hill, a village in Leicestershire, central England.

Breedon on the Hill

© Jonathan Clitheroe / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© Jonathan Clitheroe / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Breedon on the Hill

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On a limestone crag above the village stands the church of St Mary and St Hardulph, built within the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort and holding one of England’s finest collections of Anglo-Saxon carving — including the Breedon Angel, among the oldest carved angels in the country. A quarry bites into the hill’s flank below, and a small domed lock-up sits on the green.

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