In 1751 a turnpike bridge was built over the River Sence as a part of the stagecoach route from Leicester to London.

At the centre of the village on the Stretton Road/Oaks Road T-junction is Great Glen Methodist Church, a Grade II* listed building built in 1827.

Hewett set acorns all over his estate to create a plantation of oaks, some of which were disposed to form a double colonnade like that in front of St Peter's in Rome.

[10] The settlements that comprised this estate are: Great and Little Stretton, Wistow, Newton Harcourt, Fleckney and Kilby.

Following the Battle of Naseby in 1645, during the English Civil War, Great Glen played host to a band of Cromwellian soldiers who were pursuing some of the (defeated) Royalist Cavalry.

Some of these soldiers made camp in the church where they caused much damage (such as breaking all the windows), of which some evidence can still be seen today.

In 1760 two elderly ladies of the village accused one another of witchcraft and were subjected to the ducking stool, which one passed and the other failed.

[14] The old public house, The Fox and Goose, is still visible on Church Lane but has been converted to a private residence.