St Mary de Castro

9 ECHOES

Location: Leicester, City Of Leicester, England, United Kingdom

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The Collegiate and Parish Church is an ancient, Grade I listed building located within the former bailey of Leicester Castle.

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The Tenth Battalion Trail.

For help using the Echoes App, please visit vtsw.uk/echoes. There is about twenty-five minutes of audio in this Sound Walk, all of which are excerpts from the book the "The Tenth Battalion Trail". The Trail is focusses on a number of places related to the Tenth Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, during the nine months it spent in High Leicestershire from December 1943 to September 1944. During that time, The Tenth was billeted in the villages of Somerby, Thorpe Satchville and Burrough on the Hill. If you enjoy listening to the stories in the Walk, we would encourage you to buy a copy, as it will give you much more information around each of the locations in the Walk. It also has a detailed history of the Tenth written by Prosper Keating. For more information, please follow this link https://friendsofthetenth.co.uk/product/the-tenth-battalion-trail-guidebook How you choose to follow this Sound Walk is entirely up to you. There's a Strava walking route here: www.strava.com/routes/3447517172964478806, a Strava cycling route here: www.strava.com/routes/3450797452392584768 and a Google Maps driving route here: maps.app.goo.gl/C8yNyEuRXvDQioxD9. Along the way there are pubs and cafes where you can stop off for drinks, snacks or full meals. There are also useful shops as well as places where you can spend a night. To hear the whole script for each location (AKA 'echo'), you will need to stay inside the echo until the audio has finished as the walk is set to only play the audio when you are actually located in the echo. If you leave the echo, the audio will stop. But if you go back into it, it will carry on from where it left off, or re-start if it had already finished. Alternatively, if you like, you can just virtually visit all the locations from the comfort of your sofa by visiting www.vtsw.uk/vt/ttbt.

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St Mary de Castro

9 ECHOES

Location: Leicester, City Of Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Overview and History of St Mary de Castro

The Original Castle Chapel

The North Aisle

The Chancel

The Trinity Aisle

The Tower

The Green

North Side of the Church

The Graveyard

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