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Lockington-Hemington

Lockington-Hemington is a civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England.

Lockington-Hemington
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The place

Lockington-Hemington is a civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The parish includes the villages of Hemington and Lockington. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 556, rising to 838 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lockington-Hemington

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.

  1. 01
    Monsters of Rock

    Monsters of Rock was a hard rock and heavy metal music festival. It was originally held annually in Castle Donington, England, from 1980 to 1996, taking place every year except 1989 and 1993.

    1.9 km · concert tour · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James Church, Shardlow

    St James’ Church, Shardlow is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Shardlow, Derbyshire.

    3 km · grade II listed building in Shardlow and Great Wilne, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Trinity Church, Ratcliffe-on-Soar

    Holy Trinity Church, Ratcliffe-on-Soar is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Ratcliffe-on-Soar. It is part of an informal grouping of five churches that are known collectively as "The 453 Churches" as they straddle the A453.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cavendish Bridge

    Cavendish Bridge is a bridge over the River Trent, connecting the counties of Leicestershire and Derbyshire; it is also the name of a hamlet on the Leicestershire side of the river within the Castle Donington parish. This bridge once carried the main London-Manchester turnpike, though the modern A6/A50 dual carriageway has now been built to the south bypassing the crossing.

    2.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Donington Castle

    Donington Castle was in the village of Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England to the north of East Midlands Airport. This early 12th-century castle was held by the de Lacy family.

    1.8 km · castle in Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints' Church, Sawley

    All Saints’ Church, Sawley, is a Grade I listed parish church in Sawley, Derbyshire, England.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed parish church in Sawley, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Harrington Bridge

    Harrington Bridge crosses the River Trent near Sawley in Derbyshire carrying the Tamworth Road into Leicestershire. The stonework of the bridge dates from 1790, but the central section was replaced in 1905 after it was damaged by flood water.

    2.6 km · grade II listed bridge in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Castle Donington Methodist Church

    Castle Donington Methodist Church is a Grade II listed Methodist church in Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England.

    2.1 km · Grade II listed building in Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lockington Marshes

    Lockington Marshes is an 11.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Ratcliffe on Soar in Leicestershire. This site in the floodplains of the River Soar and River Trent has a periodically flooded meadow, pools and one of the largest areas of willow carr in the county.

    2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Winifred's Church, Kingston on Soar

    The Church of St. Winifred is a church in Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire.

    4 km · Grade I listed church in Kingston on Soar, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Lockington-Hemington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 3 km · Birmingham (BHX), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 85 km
Stations
East Midlands Airport, 2.7 km · Long Eaton railway station, 4 km · East Midlands Parkway railway station, 3.6 km · East Midlands Gateway, 2.3 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lockington-Hemington
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Lockington-Hemington
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–17
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lockington-Hemington
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lockington-Hemington

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 Lockington-Hemington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    241 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    392 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    423 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    427 km

If you know how people move in Lockington-Hemington – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Lockington-Hemington

Lockington-Hemington is 16 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Castle Doningtonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Sawleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England2.8 km
  • Kegworthvillage in Kegworth parish, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Ratcliffe-on-Soarvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Shardlowvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK3 km
  • Lockingtonvillage in Leicestershire, UK700 m