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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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The Birth of a Project
Location: Lincolnshire
Planning the Project
An approach was made to the Parishioners, via meetings and home visits, to get a feel for their enthusiasm and their potential involvement in, this project concerning the village. We asked the question; “would you like this to happen”? Their reply was a resounding “yes please”. Many of the older members of the community were surprised something like this hadn’t been attempted before in the parish.
 During Committee meetings it was decided too, that we would to record a filmed survey of the village, as it is today – 2003/2004. The shame being: many of our older buildings had already disappeared, some, and only some appearing on old black and white photos: many of which were far from good condition and requiring some inevitable “tweaking”.
Making a Start
 the original concept was for a book of, possibly, 150 A5 pages including text and photographs. The finished product is quite a large product of approximately 224 A4 pages with in excess of 130,000 words. Much of it is in double column format and contains around 400 photographs, some taken during the project research period but many older ones, some, indeed approaching 100 years of age.
The Beginnings of a Book
 We begin with the ‘Old Leverton’ with the enumerators at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 noting; ‘there is a priest and a church here’. Some 30 odd A4 pages only are dedicated to this area of our history although with the available material – notably the churchwarden’s accounts well preserved and dating from circa 1493 – a sizeable tome could be written on Leverton Church alone. This would involve translation of both 12th Century Latin and English Script; but could well be undertaken.
We move onto the 1800s much of which is in double column format which we find makes for easier reading, particularly the older readers. Also much of the book is in chronological order as to expand information in each area would have increased the size of the book tremendously.
Project Development
 We had made a start and were now on our way. Not only our parishioners, but people from neighbouring villages who had heard of the project were very keen to ‘give evidence’ as it were and lots of material was forthcoming from some unexpected quarters. This, as well as being very gratifying, also raised speculation over the size of the book, which was, in our planning stages, to be of modest proportions.
We nevertheless decided to incorporate our incoming data into one volume and see where this decision would lead us, as; if we were overwhelmed we could possibly produce a second edition. In the event, however, things worked out fine; the book was much larger but to have cut it down and therefore diluted the content would in our opinion detract from the ‘flow’ and produce fragmentation.
Farming and Businesses
The Grant family run a nationally acclaimed equestrian centre here as well as a thriving horticultural nursery established some 80 years ago.The Grant's website
 There is also an internationally known bowls and sports flooring specialist company Dales Joinery,whose products and expertise are shown to good effect on our T.V. screens during National and International bowls tournaments. Leverton is predominantly a farming village with the Saul, Bowser, Grant and Wright families being the larger landowners, although, of course, there are other successful businesses here with the above mentioned nationally acclaimed equestrian centre.
Some of our farming families have lived and farmed in the Parish of Leverton for more than a century with some surnames of the villagers going back much further than that.
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