• Foremark - 'old fortification'.

It is all charming here, high above the Trent, and lovely are the ways bringing us to it from Repton or from Ingleby.

Fine gates lead to the handsome stone Hall with a huge portico and corner bows with domed roofs, built by David Hiorns in 1755 for Sir Robert Burdett. Now a preparatory school for Repton, it stands at the head of a lake in grounds with groves of trees and nobel yew hedges.

One who loved this quiet place and made it is home was Sir Francis Burdett, a 19th century opponent of injustice and a vigorous champion of liberty. He had denounced flogging in the army and advocated its abolition for fifty years when Queen Victoria was still advocating its continuance as the only means of keeping order in the navy. He was imprisoned more than once for his advanced views, and suffered through his protest against the Peterloo massacre. His courageous efforts brought about some of the early prison reforms; and as far back as Trafalgar he was urging reforms which were not accepted for another generation. He died in 1844 a man widely loved, generous to the poor and a supporter of every good cause.

The church with the low tower was built in the Gothic style in 1662 when the old chapel and the chapel of Ingleby downstream fell into decay, the stone and wood from Ingleby being used to rebuild it. There are three sundials on three buttresses,and above the chancel window are the Burdett arms and figures of Faith and Hope.