Ravenstone
Ravenstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ravenstone with Snibstone, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.
Ravenstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ravenstone with Snibstone, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is within the National Forest, just off the A511 road between Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in 2001 it had a population of 2,149.
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Worth seeing in and around Ravenstone
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.
- 01Nature Alive
Nature Alive is a 5.7 hectares Local Nature Reserve in northern outskirts of Coalville in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by North West Leicestershire District Council.
2.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Coleorton 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.
3.7 km · country house in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Snibston Grange
Snibston Grange is a 3.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Coalville in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by Leicestershire County Council.
1.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Kelham Bridge
Kelham Bridge is a 8.1 hectares nature reserve north of Ibstock in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
1.8 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Sence Valley Forest Park
Sence Valley Forest Park is located between Ibstock and Heather in North West Leicestershire, and within the National Forest, England. It is situated on the site of a former open cast mine where, between 1982 and 1996, eight million tonnes of coal were extracted by opencast mining.
2.6 km · English park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ravenstone
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 13 km · Birmingham (BHX), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 91 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ravenstone101 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–17
- London → Ravenstone161 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–21
- Luton, Luton → Ravenstone115 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £12–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Ravenstone
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 Ravenstone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Ravenstone
Ravenstone is 21 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Coalvilletown in Leicestershire, England2.5 km
- North West Leicestershirelocal government district in Leicestershire, England2.4 km
- Ibstocktown and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England3.7 km
- Coleortonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.5 km
- Swanningtonvillage and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, UK2.7 km
- Heathervillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK3.2 km