Long Clawson is a village in north Leicestershire, 6 miles north of Melton Mowbray and close to the border with Nottinghamshire. It is dairying country and the village is famed for the production of Stilton cheese. Around 20 Quakers are recorded as meeting at husbandman Edward Allum’s house in Long Clawson in 1669, ‘consisting of … Continue reading Protestant nonconformity in Long Clawson