Plungar
Plungar is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Redmile, and the Melton district of Leicestershire, England.
Plungar is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Redmile, and the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It is about nine miles north of the market town of Melton Mowbray and seven miles west from Grantham. Plungar is adjacent to the Grantham Canal and stands in the Vale of Belvoir. In 1931 the parish had a population of 205.
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Worth seeing in and around Plungar
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.
- 01Church of St Peter and St Paul
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church in Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
1.4 km · church in Barkestone, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Grantham Canal SSSI
Grantham Canal SSSI is a 9.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which runs along a stretch of the Grantham Canal and its banks between Redmile and Harby in Leicestershire. This site has diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitats, which supports a varied insect community.
600 m · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church, Barnstone is a parish church in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham of the Church of England, situated in Barnstone, Nottinghamshire. It was completed as a chapel of ease for St Andrew's Church, Langar in 1857 in Gothic Revival style.
3.7 km · church in Barnstone, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Plungar
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 32 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km · Manchester (MAN), 107 km
- Stations
- Langar Airfield, 2.9 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Plungar84 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Plungar112 km · quickest by road, 3h · £14–19
- Luton, Luton → Plungar117 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Plungar
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 Plungar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextDirect trains to London mean that the capital is in easy reach for a day trip or to continue your travels.
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Next door to Plungar
Plungar is 21 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Redmilevillage and civil parish in Melton, Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Stathernvillage and civil parish in Melton, Leicestershire, England2.7 km
- Harbyvillage in Leicestershire, UK3.6 km
- Granbyvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom1.7 km
- Barkestone-le-Valevillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.5 km
- Langar cum Barnstonecivil parish in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.6 km