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.

View the church at Google Maps The village is serviced by a Post Office[4] and a Co-op store.

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.

The only court proceedings to arise were fines for rioting as the crime of witchcraft had been removed from the statue books in the 1730s.