Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, also spelled Ashby de la Zouch and commonly shortened to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, also spelled Ashby de la Zouch and commonly shortened to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders. Its population at the 2021 census was 16,491. Ashby de la Zouch Castle was an important fort in the 15th to 17th centuries. During the 19th century, the town's main industry was ribbon manufacturing.
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Worth seeing in and around Ashby-de-la-Zouch
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Ashby de la Zouch Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The castle was built by William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV, after 1473, accompanied by the creation of a 3,000-acre park.
700 m · Grade I listed ruins in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Church of St James
St James’ Church, Smisby is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Smisby, Derbyshire.
2.6 km · church in Smisby, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
0 m · church in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
St Helen's Church is the Anglican parish church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the deanery of North West Leicestershire and the Diocese of Leicester. There was a church in the town in the 11th century, but the core of the present building mainly dates from work started in 1474, when the church was rebuilt by the 1st Baron Hastings at the same time that he converted his neighbouring manor house into a castle.
600 m · church in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Stephen's Church, Woodville
St Stephen's Church, Woodville is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Woodville, Derbyshire.
4.7 km · church building in Woodville, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Staunton Harold Hall
Staunton Harold Hall is a large 18th-century Grade I listed country house built by the Earls Ferrers, situated within the 2,000-acre Staunton Harold Park in Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England, which includes the 17th-century Grade I listed Holy Trinity Chapel.
4.9 km · Grade I listed building in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Parish Church of St Margaret of Antioch
The Church of St Margaret of Antioch is a church in Blackfordby, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II listed building.
2.8 km · church in Blackfordby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Town Hall
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The structure, which was used as the offices of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
400 m · town hall in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Dimminsdale
Dimminsdale is a 37 hectare geological and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest partly in Derbyshire and partly in Leicestershire. It is located east of Calke in Derbyshire.
5.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 10Saltersford Wood
Saltersford Wood or Saltersford Valley is a 5.7-hectare Local Nature Reserve north-west of Measham in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by Leicestershire County Council, and it part of The National Forest.
4.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Ashby de la Zouch Castle
- 02Moira Furnace
Great blast furnace for the Moira Ironworks, in what's now a canalside country park.
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Things to do
- 01Conkers
Rawdon Road,.
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Where to eat
- 01Zamani's
11 Rushtons Yd,.
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Getting to Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 14 km · Birmingham (BHX), 37 km · Manchester (MAN), 86 km
- Stations
- Woodville railway station, 4.2 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ashby-de-la-Zouch96 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Ashby-de-la-Zouch125 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–18
- London → Ashby-de-la-Zouch166 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ashby-de-la-Zouch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.
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Next door to Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch is 26 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Smisbyvillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England2.8 km
- Meashamvillage in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom4.9 km
- Hartshornevillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England5.8 km
- Packingtonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK2.1 km
- Calkevillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England5.8 km