Buckminster Hall, a large Palladian-style property, was built within the park in the 1790s for Sir William Manners.

The large stables, built around a courtyard for the 9th earl of Dysart in the 1880s, stand to the south of the Park, and have been converted to housing.

[4] Buckminster stands 500 feet above sea level, with no higher ground between the village and The Wash, on the east coast, 37 miles away.

Its character changed from the 1790s, when Sir William Manners decided to move to the village and built Buckminster Hall.

Sir William became the heir to the earldom, took the surname Talmash (later Tollemache) and the courtesy title Lord Huntingtower.

These included the demolition of the Bull Row terrace and its replacement with higher-quality semi-detached family homes, the creation of reading rooms in 1886, which became Buckminster Institute in 1898 (the forerunner to the Village Hall), the restoration of St John the Baptist church and the building of a new village school.

[2] Land to the south and east of Buckminster village was quarried for ironstone between 1948 and 1968 on a rolling opencast basis, with the fields returned to agricultural use within a season.

The result can be seen in the landscape, with the fields in the quarried area, including around the school, lying some 7 to 15 feet below the level of other roads.

[2] The early 21st century has seen further changes, including the renovation of old buildings to create offices and the installation of fast broadband.

Inside are carved corbels, and an unusual turret containing a newel-staircase at the south-east corner of the nave, which would have led to the rood loft, and still provides access to the bells.

It was designed by Halsey Ricardo and built by the trustees of the estate of Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart, who died in 1878.