East Goscote
St Hilda's
The church-centre was finally built and dedicated on February 1, 1975. It has served the community well throughout the years.
The village name is taken from East Goscote, one of the old hundreds (an area of land purported to be able to support 100 families) of Leicester. The Goscote Hundred (or Wapentake) is mentioned in the Domesday Book, this was later split into the West and East Goscote Hundreds.
It was the first new village to be created in Leicestershire since Domesday and is unique in the County.
The village is built on the site of a former army supply depot. According to Ministry of Defence files, the site was originally constructed in 1940 (finished September 1942) by Holloway Brothers, and was an Agency factory run by Lever Brothers/Unilever (No 10 ROF, Royal Ordnance Factory). At that time it was known as the Queniborough depot, since that was the closest village to it.
The new village was built by Jelson Ltd in the late 1960s, early 1970s, and before there was a church building the services were held in the village hall or the vicar's home.
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