Hinckley has just disappeared
a phenomenon really quite weird
‘twas the aliens did it
have they zapped or just hid it
they stood around, clapped and then cheered
Now, don’t worry, this isn’t a major catastrophe at Hinkley Point. We haven’t had a nuclear meltdown in Somerset. No, this is Hinckley, a market town in southwest Leicestershire, England. It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. (Think Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses). Hinckley is the second largest town in the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Loughborough.
Hinckley is about midway between the cities of Leicester and Coventry and has a history going back to Anglo-Saxon times; the name Hinckley is Anglo Saxon: “Hinck” is someone’s name and “ley” is a meadow. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Hinckley was quite a large village, and grew over the following 200 years into a small market town—a market was first recorded there in 1311. There is evidence of an Anglo Saxon church – the remnants of an Anglo Saxon sun-dial being visible on the diagonal buttress on the south-east corner of the chancel.
Such a pity that the aliens didn’t appreciate it!
The Domesday Book is Britain’s earliest public record.
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Well, let’s hope they did appreciate it and they’ve taken it as a model??? You just never know with aliens.
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So much history, gone in a zap…
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It is a pity! Those darn aliens! 😉
I clicked on the link to learn more…some interesting landmarks there AND some great notable people! 🙂
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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Those aliens! 🙂 I could think of a few places and people they should have taken instead.
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Aliens evidently know a good thing when they see it. I wonder what they’ll do with the place? 😀 I’ve never been to Hinckley, which isn’t that far from Bottesford where we lived for six years. Perhaps we should go and have a look sometime.
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Too funny. I had a long ago boyfriend with the last name Hinckley. He disappeared too. I had never thought of aliens.
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I’m glad to have cleared up a mystery from long ago!
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LOL
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So glad you dug up some history of Hinckley. Oh, no aliens!
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a cloaking facility at our fingertips just like the Klingon space ships in Star Trek? I often wondered if JK Rowling was a Star Trek fan and that’s where the idea for Harry’s invisibility cloak came from.
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Perhaps the aliens will come back and give it a chance! Perhaps they’re monitoring it now and this post will lure them in once and for all!!! 😃
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Hopefully they took him to a better place 🙂
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🤣
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Fun & interesting post!
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Well I’m glad they were amused.
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Thank you. 🙂
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