Ibstock
Ibstock is a former coal mining village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England.
Ibstock is a former coal mining village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 5,760 at the 2001 census increasing to 6,201 at the 2011 census and 7,615 at the 2021 census.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Ibstock
3 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.
- 01Snibston Grange
Snibston Grange is a 3.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Coalville in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by Leicestershire County Council.
3.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Kelham Bridge
Kelham Bridge is a 8.1 hectares nature reserve north of Ibstock in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
1.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Sence Valley Forest Park
Sence Valley Forest Park is located between Ibstock and Heather in North West Leicestershire, and within the National Forest, England. It is situated on the site of a former open cast mine where, between 1982 and 1996, eight million tonnes of coal were extracted by opencast mining.
1.1 km · English park · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Ibstock
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 17 km · Birmingham (BHX), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 94 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ibstock105 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £13–18
- London → Ibstock157 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–21
- Luton, Luton → Ibstock112 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £12–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ibstock
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 Ibstock. 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 Ibstock – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ibstock
Ibstock is 19 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- North West Leicestershirelocal government district in Leicestershire, England3.9 km
- Nailstonevillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.1 km
- Heathervillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK1.7 km
- Normanton le Heathvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
- Swepstonevillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.7 km
- Ravenstonevillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.7 km