What a great tagline ! In 1985, land between Hathern and the River Soar was included in a Leics. County Council Minerals Plan for extraction of sand and gravel. Here you can see a leaflet urging villages to "protest now". It contains a map of the proposed site. A second map is also shown with a small revision. As we all know the protest was successful -  thank goodness. This is what we would have lost :-