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The first Freemasons' lodges in Ashby de la Zouch were established by the French prisoners of war billeted here during the Napoleonic War. One is known to have been working in 1810 and another was in operation in 1814. Consecrated in 1859, the Ferrers and Ivanhoe Lodge No.779 meets at 18:00hrs. in the Masonic Hall, Lower Church Street, Ashby de la Zouch Leicestershire on the second Tuesday of the month, September to May. Installation, third Wednesday in October.