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Packington

Packington is a village and civil parish in the district of North West Leicestershire.

Packington
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The place

Packington is a village and civil parish in the district of North West Leicestershire. It is situated close to the A42 road and the towns of Ashby de la Zouch and Measham. The population of Packington according to the 2001 UK census is 738, reducing slightly to 734 at the 2011 census. Nearby villages include Normanton le Heath and Heather.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Packington

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.

  1. 01
    Ashby de la Zouch Castle

    Ashby de la Zouch Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The castle was built by William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV, after 1473, accompanied by the creation of a 3,000-acre park.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed ruins in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

    St Helen's Church is the Anglican parish church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the deanery of North West Leicestershire and the Diocese of Leicester. There was a church in the town in the 11th century, but the core of the present building mainly dates from work started in 1474, when the church was rebuilt by the 1st Baron Hastings at the same time that he converted his neighbouring manor house into a castle.

    2.1 km · church in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Trinity Church

    Holy Trinity, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.

    2.1 km · church in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall

    Ashby-de-la-Zouch Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The structure, which was used as the offices of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.2 km · town hall in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Coleorton Hall

    Coleorton Hall is a 19th-century country mansion, formerly the seat of the Beaumont baronets of Stoughton Grange. Situated at Coleorton, Leicestershire, it is a Grade II* listed building now converted into residential apartments.

    4 km · country house in Leicestershire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Packington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 15 km · Birmingham (BHX), 36 km · Manchester (MAN), 88 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Packington
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £12–17
  • Liverpool → Packington
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
  • London → Packington
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Packington

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    227 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    279 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    432 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    435 km

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

Around it

Next door to Packington

Packington is 25 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ashby-de-la-Zouchtown in Leicestershire, England2.1 km
  • Meashamvillage in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Normanton le Heathvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Swepstonevillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Willesleyvillage in Leicestershire (formerly Derbyshire), UK2.1 km
  • Farm Townvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.5 km