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Scraptoft

Scraptoft is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

Scraptoft
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The place

Scraptoft is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It has a population of 1,804 as measured at the 2011 census. It lies north of the A47 road east of Leicester, and runs directly into the built up area of Thurnby and Bushby to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Scraptoft

4 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
    All Saints Church, Beeby

    All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Beeby, Leicestershire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3 km · church in Beeby, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scraptoft Hall

    Scraptoft Hall is a former Georgian country house in the village of Scraptoft, Leicestershire, England. A Grade II listed building, it has since been converted to apartments.

    200 m · house in Scraptoft, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Scraptoft Nature Reserve

    Scraptoft Nature Reserve is a 14.3 hectares Local Nature Reserve in Scraptoft, on the eastern outskirts of Leicester. It is owned and managed by Leicester City Council.

    300 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Humberstone Park LNR

    Humberstone Park LNR is a 2.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Leicester. It is owned and managed by Leicester City Council.

    3 km · park in United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Scraptoft

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 28 km · Birmingham (BHX), 52 km · London Luton (LTN), 97 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Scraptoft
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Scraptoft
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–14
  • London → Scraptoft
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £15–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Scraptoft

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 Scraptoft. 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

    218 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    409 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    421 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    456 km

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

Around it

Next door to Scraptoft

Scraptoft is 6 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Charnwoodnon-metropolitan district in Leicestershire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Keyhamvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Beebyvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3 km
  • Houghton on the Hillvillage in Leicestershire, UK3.6 km
  • Barkby Thorpehamlet and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Stoughtonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK3.8 km