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Burrough on the Hill

Burrough-on-the Hill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.

Burrough on the Hill
Burrough on the Hill · Robert Cutts from Bristol, England, UK
The place

Burrough-on-the Hill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) north east of Leicester. The parish church is St. Mary the Virgin. Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hill fort near the village and is in an 86-acre (35 ha) country park of the same name. The hillfort stands on a promontory around 660 feet (200 m) above sea level, 7 miles (11 km) south of the ancient settlement of Melton Mowbray. In 1931 the parish had a population of 214.

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Worth seeing in and around Burrough on the Hill

2 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.

  1. 01
    Burrough Hill

    Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Burrough on the Hill, 7 miles south of Melton Mowbray in the English county of Leicestershire. Situated on a promontory about 210 metres above sea level, the site commands views over the surrounding countryside for miles around.

    1.4 km · Iron Age hill fort in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Burrough on the Hill Manor

    Burrough on the Hill Manor is an 18th-century brick-built house in the village of Burrough on the Hill, in the civil parish of Somerby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is a grade II listed building.

    200 m · house in Somerby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Burrough on the Hill

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 34 km · Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 97 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Burrough on the Hill
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Burrough on the Hill
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–15
  • London → Burrough on the Hill
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £16–21
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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 Burrough on the Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    224 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    398 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    424 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    459 km

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Around it

Next door to Burrough on the Hill

Burrough on the Hill is 18 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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