Burton Lazars
Burton Lazars is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.

Burton Lazars is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is two miles (3 km) south-east of Melton Mowbray, having a population of c.450 in 2015. It is the site of the remains of the English headquarters of the military and hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus.
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Worth seeing in and around Burton Lazars
5 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.
- 01St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray
St Mary is the parish church of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The large medieval church, described as "one of the finest parish churches in Leicestershire", suffered from a poor Victorian restoration, and was left in a poor state of repair and deemed "unfit for purpose".
2.6 km · Grade I listed church in Melton, Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia - 02St Mary's Church, Brentingby
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Brentingby, Leicestershire, England. The walls of the church required renovation when converted into a private house, with the tower standing untouched.
2.4 km · grade II listed church in Freeby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Ankle Hill
Ankle Hill is a hill located in the centre of Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire. In February 1645 during the First English Civil War the town of Melton Mowbray was the scene of a battle between Sir Marmaduke Langdale's Royalist force of 1,500 men and the Roundhead garrison commanded by Colonel Sir Edward Rossiter which was stationed in the town.
2.1 km · hill in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04River Eye SSSI
River Eye SSSI is a 6.0 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest covering a stretch of the River Eye between Ham Bridge, north-west of Stapleford, and the eastern outskirts of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site.
1.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 05Melton Carnegie Museum
The Melton Carnegie Museum is a museum in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, which documents the history of the market town. It is managed by Leicestershire County Council and supported by Melton Borough Council and is Heritage Lottery Funded.
2.5 km · Museum in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Burton Lazars
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 33 km · Birmingham (BHX), 68 km · London Luton (LTN), 102 km
- Stations
- Melton Mowbray railway station, 2.4 km · RAF Melton Mowbray, 2.6 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Burton Lazars76 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Burton Lazars101 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
- London → Burton Lazars146 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Burton Lazars
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 Burton Lazars. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Burton Lazars
Burton Lazars is 22 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Melton Mowbraytown in Leicestershire, England, UK2.8 km
- Burton and Dalbycivil parish in Leicestershire, UK1.9 km
- Thorpe Arnoldvillage in Leicestershire, UK3.2 km
- Little Dalbyvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Brentingbyvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2.4 km
- Wyfordbyvillage in Leicestershire, England3.2 km