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The Birth of a Project
A DVD with filmed and still images of the village
Views of the Village
Celebration of Event and Launch of Book and DVD
Farming and Development
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Farming and Development
Location: Lincolnshire
Farming and Development
 We, in the countryside today are at very great risk from many quarters, particularly some in power, who do not understand the countryside, our way of life, or our needs, and have no apparent desire to do so. The majority of businesses, both old and new, that are here today are very considerate to the village way of life and bring much needed help in the way of employment and trade to the village.
 There aren't as many businesses, farming or otherwise, in the village today, as say, 50 odd years ago. This gradual change over some two or three hundred years was, in farming in particular, to a large degree born out of necessity. Ever since the very early days of the tithes and the cottager, farming was carried out in the main, to supply the tenant, or the owner of small parcels of land, with enough to feed their families on, and to carry out a bit of bartering with their neighbours. This of course had to change. Over the last two hundred years, and certainly since the Land Inclosure Act in 1810 farming has become successively, decade upon decade, more efficient.
 Leverton in early times, as with all villages in this area was, until the major drainage programmes really began to make a big difference, a typical marshland village subject to regular flooding to several miles inland of the village at high tides: the building of earth banks being the only way of keeping some sort of check on the incoming water and then only possibly re-routing much of it to out of the way, lower areas. There are several banks built to this end in the village, some dating back to Anglo - Saxon times. Most are now well used roads through the village.
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