Ratby
Ratby is a commuter village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, west of Leicester and just south east of the M1 motorway.
Ratby is a commuter village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, west of Leicester and just south east of the M1 motorway. The population at the 2011 census was 4,468. Other nearby places include Field Head, Kirby Muxloe, Glenfield and Markfield. Ratby is part of the Leicester Urban Area.
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Worth seeing in and around Ratby
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.
- 01Kirby Muxloe Castle
Kirby Muxloe Castle, also known historically as Kirby Castle, is a ruined, fortified manor house in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England. William, Lord Hastings, began work on the castle in 1480, founding it on the site of a pre-existing manor house.
1.6 km · unfinished 15th century fortified manor house in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Groby Castle
Groby Castle is situated in the large village of Groby to the north-west of the city of Leicester, England.
2 km · castle in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Groby Old Hall
Groby Old Hall is partly a 15th-century brick-built manor house and grade II* listed building located very near the site of Groby Castle in the village of Groby in Leicestershire.
2 km · house in Groby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Islamic Foundation
The Islamic Foundation is Jamaat-e-Islami's research and publishing house in the United Kingdom. It was established in Leicester in 1973 by two high-ranking Pakistani activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, Khurshid Ahmad and Khurram Murad.
3.7 km · Research and publishing house in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Bradgate House
Bradgate House is a 19th-century ruin in Groby, Leicestershire, England. Built in 1856 for the seventh Earl of Stamford, George Harry Grey, it was intended as a replacement for the 16th century Bradgate House built circa 1520, built by his ancestor Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and home of Lady Jane Grey.
3.2 km · Ruined 19th-century house in Groby, Leicestershire · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ratby
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 21 km · Birmingham (BHX), 40 km · Manchester (MAN), 104 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ratby48 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £7–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ratby114 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Ratby102 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ratby
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 Ratby. 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 Ratby – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ratby
Ratby is 8 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kirby Muxloevillage in Leicestershire, England, UK1.5 km
- Glenfieldvillage in Leicestershire, England2.4 km
- Newtown Linfordvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England4 km
- Grobyvillage in Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, UK1.3 km
- Leicester Forest Eastvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Botchestonhamlet in Leicestershire, England, UK3.3 km