Hinckley and Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in Leicestershire, England.
Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in Leicestershire, England. The council is based in Hinckley, the largest town. The borough also includes the town of Earl Shilton and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The Bosworth in the borough's name refers to the small market town of Market Bosworth, near which the Battle of Bosworth Field was fought in 1485.
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Worth seeing in and around Hinckley and Bosworth
4 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.
- 01Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census.
3.5 km · village and market town in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Cadeby Light Railway
The Cadeby Light Railway was a 2 ft narrow-gauge railway in the garden of the rectory in Cadeby, Leicestershire. In the early 1960s the Reverend Teddy Boston became rector of All Saints' Church, Cadeby.
1.3 km · Garden railway in England · Wikipedia - 03Osbaston Hall
Osbaston Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house at Osbaston, Leicestershire. It is the home of the de Lisle family and a Grade II* listed building.
3.1 km · house in Osbaston, Hinckley and Bosworth, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bosworth Hall
Bosworth Hall is a historic country house and Grade II* listed building in the rural town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, England, now known as the Bosworth Hall Hotel. It was the country seat of the Dixie family for nearly three hundred years.
3.3 km · English country house at Market Bosworth · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hinckley and Bosworth
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 24 km · Birmingham (BHX), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 103 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hinckley and Bosworth111 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £15–20
- London → Hinckley and Bosworth151 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Hinckley and Bosworth106 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hinckley and Bosworth
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 Hinckley and Bosworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Hinckley and Bosworth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hinckley and Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth is 15 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cadebyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK1.4 km
- Barlestonevillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
- Sutton Cheneyvillage in Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Osbastonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK2.9 km
- Newbold Verdonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK2.1 km
- Peckletonvillage in Kirkby Mallory, Peckleton and Stapleton, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.3 km