Benchmark, Charnwood Road Baptist Church, Shepshed - European Historic Survey Stones, Monuments and Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

The current chapel was opened in this situation in 1834. Most of the inhabitants of Shepshed live within a radius of 1½ to 2 miles from the church.

Charnwood Road is thought to be one of the oldest roads in Shepshed. Charnwood Road began life as Charley Way and was nothing more than a track leading to the forest. The forest, in the very early days, came down as far as the Ring Fence. In the late seventeen hundreds when the Navigation canal was built, it crossed over Charley Way near to where the Anson Road junction is today and the original tow path is now a footpath leading to Leicester road. There would have been a bridge made on Charley Way over the canal and so the road became Navigation Road before finally becoming Charnwood Road.

The former graveyard is now the bus stop in the Bullring.

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