Nailstone
Nailstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, situated to the west of Leicester and 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Market Bosworth.
Nailstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, situated to the west of Leicester and 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Market Bosworth. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 521, reducing slightly to 514 at the 2011 census. The village has a primary school: Dove Bank Primary School the catchment area for which also includes the neighbouring village of Bagworth.
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Worth seeing in and around Nailstone
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.
- 01Chapel of the Holy Rood, Bagworth
The Chapel of the Holy Rood was a Church of England chapel in Bagworth, Leicestershire. It closed in 2013 to worship and was demolished in 2019.
3.3 km · chapel in Bagworth, Leicestershire · Wikipedia - 02Osbaston 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.
2.8 km · house in Osbaston, Hinckley and Bosworth, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bosworth 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.
3.9 km · English country house at Market Bosworth · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nailstone
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 19 km · Birmingham (BHX), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 97 km
- Stations
- Shackerstone railway station, 3.9 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Nailstone108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £14–18
- London → Nailstone154 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–22
- Luton, Luton → Nailstone109 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £12–15
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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 Nailstone
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 Nailstone. 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 Nailstone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Nailstone
Nailstone is 17 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Barlestonevillage in Leicestershire, England, UK1.8 km
- Carltonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England2.9 km
- Ibstocktown and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England3.1 km
- Osbastonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK2.9 km
- Bagworthvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3 km
- Bagworth and Thorntoncivil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK3.8 km