Lount Nature Reserve is situated on the site of a former colliery tip now reclaimed with oak and birch woodlands, grassland and ponds that contain a wide variety of wildlife.
The village was traditionally linked to the Staunton Harold estate, and made up of 17th–19th century cottages. Lount was the scene in 1760, of a death, by murder, of Johnson the Earl of Ferrers steward, who had been shot, by Laurence, The Earl Ferrers, at the neighbouring village of Staunton Harold. The steward returned to his house in Lount, where he died. Earl Ferrers was later hanged. His Execution was widely publicized in popular culture as evidence of equality of the law and the story of a wicked nobleman who was executed "like a common criminal" was told well into the 1800s.
The Ferrers Inn and restaurant serve food in this popular public house on Nottingham Road and further along this road the lovely walk through Alistair, Bignalls & Jaquar Lount woods to Staunton Harold is well worth walking.This is part of The National Forest. www.forestry.gov.uk
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