Posts about the history of Lound
Lound residents, friends and family enjoyed a Village Party on Sunday 7th May on the playing field to celebrate King Charles III Coronation. Later, the Bluebell Inn organised a BBQ in the pubs garden together with live music by the…
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration Street Party - 2022 Lound residents, friends and family enjoyed a Village Street Party on Friday 3rd June to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations. On Thursday 2nd June the Bluebell Inn organised a village rounders…
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Lound came together on the 8th May at 3.00pm, even when forced apart by Covid - 19 lockdown, to remember the end of WW2 in Europe and mark 75 years since VE Day. See more about the Lound 75th VE…
See more about the History of Lound here (PDF)
See more about Linghurst Lakes History here (PDF)
The village has obtained images of two original “Sutton cum Lound Enclosure Maps”, dated 1778, from Nottinghamshire Archives. These show how the large mediaeval open fields, with their multitude of individual long, thin strips, were “enclosed” to form more efficient fields as we…
The Queen's 90th Birthday Party Despite the rain, Lound's residents and friends and family enjoyed the Street Party on the 12th June to celebrate the Queen's 90th Birthday. Click the main heading for the link. Queen’s 90th Birthday 2016
Over the last 100 years, Town Street has changed from a sleepy North Nottinghamshire village to a very popular residential location. In that short time, many properties have been either demolished or altered to modern living standards. We now have the luxury…
This photograph is taken from the archives. It depicts children on the road (Mattersey Road) outside the old school. How times have changed but there is a vehicle just visible in the back right hand corner. Click for a bigger image.
Lound is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, four miles north of Retford. It has a population of around 500 people. The village is of Danish origin dating from the 8th century with a street running along the spine of the…
