Newtown Linford relocation of people when the Ferrers family of Groby turned Bradgate into a deer park. The people who lived within the estate were moved to the "New Town" - or hamlet as it would have been then, at the ford of the river Lin (once located at the junction of Markfield Lane and Main Street). The village was first documented in 1293 and was previously known as "Lyndynford". The villagers were all tenants of the Ferrers family, and later the Grey family. The village is famous for Bradgate Park, a large country park which was home to Lady Jane Grey,
Lewis Linford sexual assault of a 20-year-old female boxer in a nightclub in Kingston upon Hull. The incident was alleged to have occurred in Hull's Pozition night club in 2007, two years before Smales appeared on "Emmerdale". Smales was acquitted of the charge and later appeared in the media arguing for the anonymity of accused males in rape trials. Lewis Linford Lewis Smales (stage name Linford) (born 1987) is a British actor. A native of Swanland, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Smales is probably best known for playing the character of gamekeeper Lee Naylor in the British television soap "Emmerdale". In 2010