People in a village on the Nottinghamshire border have spoken about how they feel torn between three counties. The large Leicestershire village of Bottesford is situated in a strange location, with its residents having a Nottinghamshire postcode and one of the nearest towns being a Lincolnshire one.
Many of those living there say that given the 35 mile drive to Leicester, Bottesford doesn't feel part of that county. But despite the geographical confusion, all those living there agree on the joys of living in the village, Leicestershire Live reports.
Nicky Hibbert, 44, who has a hair salon opposite the Co-op in Queen Street, said: "It's a lovely little village and it's great for eating out and has nice pubs. There's pretty much everything you want here and if you need to go somewhere bigger there's always Grantham - but that's a hell hole!"
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Her friend and customer Lynn Adlington, 55, said: "It's a nice-looking village, too. They are building new houses everywhere around here, though, so it's getting bigger.
"You can get all your groceries and everything here. I do go out of the village for a bigger supermarket sometimes, though."
The local borough councillor for the area, Don Pritchett, echoed the opinion that Bottesford has everything you could ever want. He said: "It's very well serviced with doctors, pubs, restaurants, good schools, an active church and chapel, a hugely successful grassroots football club involving about 2,000 local people and a cricket club that's also popular and successful.
"There are good links - trains for Grantham get to London in just over an hour and there's the A52, the A46 and the A1 nearby. That's why people love it here."
Villager Colin Watts, 66, who has spent the past 23 years in Bottesford, said: "It's a very well-established village and you've got everything you need here from the vets and shops to local builders and other trades.
"It's a very nice place to live - but that does mean it's expensive." He said the village also had good cafes and pubs. "But I don't really think of it as being Leicestershire," he added.
His friend Ian Gray, 57, who lives over the border in Nottinghamshire agreed: "When you're driving around here you're in Lincolnshire, then Leicestershire, then Nottinghamshire...."
