Visit to Hallaton Museum

Visit to Hallaton Museum (and tour of village)

18.00pm for 18.15pm prompt at:

The Tin Tab, Churchgate, Hallaton, Market Harborough LE16 8TY

Meal after at The Wheel and Compass, Weston by Welland.

19.45 for 20.00pm  Choices from normal menu planned.

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Where there’s aWill there’s aWay

Hallaton Museum is opening it’s doors this year to their exhibition ‘Where there’s a Will, there’s a Way’, an incredible insight to story which has never been told before.

Previously, through excavation on Hare Pie Bank - famously known for its Easter Monday Bottle Kicking and the discovery of St Morrell’s Chapel, we know from isotope analysis the pilgrims buried on the hillside in this south east Leicestershire village had travelled a long way to get here.We know where they came from, but where were they going?

Pilgrims travelled between priories, monasteries, churches and places of religious and spiritual interest, by road and track.We had always assumed they would be travelling to the Shrine of Our Lady ofWalsingham, but by joining together the places they had been to we can see the places they would have passed through comparing with historical records and resources to create their journey.

The Will of Frances Butler, Rector of Hallaton, written in 1532 was discovered in the Leicester Archives in 1998.This instructed a man named Edmund Oliver to take a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham along with 3 other names shrines along the way. In this exhibition we follow this route to discover the importance of these religious centres and the impact upon our towns we know today and journey through many familiar places through the eyes of the medieval travellers.

Come and discover for yourself the adventures these pilgrims took, see recovered and reconstructed stone from the chapel of St Morrell, try on a pilgrim’s outfit and not forgetting to tell us where your pilgrimage would take you!

Visit us on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank holidays 2.30-5pm, or why not arrange a group visit at a convenient time.

Recovered stone from the excavation of the Chapel of St Morrell

  The exhibition with one of our pilgrims

   www.hallaton-museum.co.uk