We are delighted to announce new for summer 2007 two luxuriant rooms available to hire at the Wheatsheaf Inn. Now fully open.

Tastefully decorated with exquisite style and care the finest linens and designer fabrics have been chosen to set the measure of our a beautiful hide-away in the Leicestershire countryside.

Each rooms has a plasma colour television, and enormous care and attention has been paid to the brand new en-suite facilities in each room. One offers a bath, the other shower facilities. . Each room has a trouser press.

	Perchance to dream

Neither room is overlooked as they open onto woodlands and fields. Breakfast is provided in the kitchen, offering a selection of fruits, cereals assorted other snacks and of course traditional teas and coffee.

Further facilities provided include a lounge/dinning room, communal for both rooms, with TV telephone facilities and free wireless broadband connection at the workstation provided.

Reservations for accommodation are by phone only on (01509) 890320 (regretfully we cannot accept email confirmation) and credit card details to be taken in advance. The rooms are available from 2pm on the date of occupancy and must be vacated by 12noon on the day of departure.

Please review and agree to our terms and conditions prior to booking.
(Please click on the words terms and conditions for the link.)
(Sorry but due to an unfortunate experience we no longer offer rooms to trades people)

So much to see and do in Leicestershire

From here in Woodhouse Eaves, the heart of rural England, there is much to see and do if you are so inclined. You are in an old slate-mine house, built from Swithland slate from the near-by quarry, closed over a hundred years ago, and a walk through the next-door bluebell wood which you overlook, and you can see the water filled deep blue foreboding slate quarry pits only used by intrepid divers these days. (Bluebell season end of March).

A 20 minute further walk towards Newtown Linford brings you to the ancestral home of Lady Jane Gray, and the adjoining museum. It is also in the middle of the Charwood Beacon like National Trust land it is the home to nearly 300 deer, and from the summit you can survey the12 counties of middle England.

Should you wish to attend church, then there is a choice or traditional service some with communion some family service at the 3 parish churches within a short walk. You can watch cricket in summer at nearby Rothley or Newtown Linford. Steam train enthusiasts are amazed at the local privately owned double gauge railway running trains regularly at the weekends from Loughborough, to Quorn, Rothley and then to the outskirts of Leicester. Once a year in June a VE day celebration is commemorated at the stations with everyone in period attire and a salute offered from a Spitfire, Stuka and occasionally the Lancaster WWII flight.

Another local attraction is the Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough (of Dorothy L Sayers fame - "The Nine Taylors"). Donnington Park Motor Racing Circuit and Motor Museum is about 20 minutes drive away a fascinating tour of history. Belvoir Castle in another must while in the area.

We are 20 minutes from East Midlands Airport and within half an hours drive for those that a traveling on further afield. Taxi to the Midland mainline station takes approximately 20 minutes too.

Leicestershire County Council Coat of Arms

ARMS: Quarterly per fesse indented Argent and Gules in the first quarter a Torteau charged with a Cinquefoil Ermine in the second quarter a Lion rampant double queued also Argent in the third quarter an Ostrich Feather Ermine in the fourth quarter a Maunch Sable.
CREST: On a Wreath of the Colours a Fox courant over Stubble proper.
SUPPORTERS: On the dexter side a Bull Sable ducally gorged Or and on the sinister side a Leicestershire Ram proper.

Motto 'FOR'ARD FOR'ARD'.
Granted 25th January 1930.

The arms incorporate elements from the heraldry of four important County families, three of whom became Earls of Leicester.

The ermine cinquefoil is that of the Beaumont family, in 1103 Robert de Beaumont was made the first Earl of Leicester. The Earldom eventually passed through the sister of the fourth Earl (FitzParnel) to her husband Simon de Montfort (1206-1264), from whose arms the white doubled tailed lion on red is taken. Simon also held the Honour of Hinckley, to which appertained arms consisting of a shield parted palewise indented silver and red, from which is derived the fessewise indentation in these arms. The ermine plume is the badge of John of Gaunt (another Earl of Leicester) and the black sleeve is the badge of the Hastings family, who built castles at Kirby Muxloe and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

The running fox refers to fox hunting, which first originated in an organised form in Leicestershire in the 1690's.

The bull and ram symbolise the County's original major industries, grazing and wool. The bull's coronet represents the link with the Duchy of Lancaster, several Earls of Leicester were also Dukes of Lancaster.
The motto again refers to fox hunting, it is placed between a hazel leaf and a red martlet, which refer to Lord Hazlerigg, Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1925 to 1949 and Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Martin, Chairman of the County Council from 1924 to 1960.