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Burton Overy has done much work to research the backgrounds of the eight war dead who are remembered on the war memorial in the village church. At a church service on Sunday 3 August, their stories were told and Hayley Welby - great granddaughter of John Cox, who is buried in a commonwealth war grave in the churchyard - read his poignant story.

In 1911, the Kibworths and Smeeton Westerby were home to some 2000 people. Other villages were smaller: Foxton, for instance, had 324 inhabitants and Tur Langton, 237.