REMPSTONE - an Artist's Viewpoint.

(Extracts from the booklet "Rempstone 2000, A pictorial history." by Peter Twombley).

Almost a thousand years ago our village name was recorded in a number of different ways, Rampestune, Repestone, Rempleston and many others, and much conjecture has been put forward as to its true origins by scholarly historians.

The Oxford dictionary of place names considers the name derives from Hrempis tun. In old english Tun refers simply to a dwelling place. The Remps or Hrempis part is translated to mean 'the place of the wrinkled one', perhaps referring to a character or possibly the contour of our village. The truth is somewhat shrouded in the mists of time on this matter.

The rest of this section is divided up into:

The Church

Village dwellings

Other features

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