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Netherseal is in the extreme south of the county, looking into Leicestershire across the River Mease, and near the borders of two other counties. It is this village where elms and limes and chestnuts grow, where cottages look on to a tiny green and where a row of almshouses of 1699 and the gabled rectory look up to the church, mostly rebuilt in 1877.
The embattled 15th century tower stands among the noble limes, its lofty arch opening to the nave, and the church retains also its 13th century nave arcade.
Netherseal has lost a Jacobean house which stood near the church, but it has kept the charming 18th century Old Hall built on the foundations of a Norman castle. Note the garden and lake, together with the 17th century dovecot with its fine ladder which turns round like a wheel so that every one of the nesting boxes can be reached.
There is an old mill still grinding corn close by.
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