Normanton: Church 
Description
When Rutland Water was built in the 1970's two valleys had to be flooded, with a couple of villages destroyed in the process. Normanton Church stood on the very edge of where the reservoir would end, and so rather than being demolished a special concrete lining was created round the base of the church to protect it from flooding - leaving just the upper part of the church and the tower still above water level. From the church there are excellent views across Rutland Water
Charge
Free
Getting There
From Oakham you need to take the RF1 bus into Uppingham (hourly, about 40 minutes) and change there onto the number 12 bus (every 2 hours, about 30 minutes), which stops by the car park for the Normanton part of the reservoir, from the carpark it's about a 10 minute walk to the churchLatitude: 52.646285; Longitude: -0.622989
What3Words: clearcut.fishery.mocked
