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Shangton

Shangton is a parish and village 1 mile (2 km) north of Tur Langton in Leicestershire, England.

Shangton
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The place

Shangton is a parish and village 1 mile (2 km) north of Tur Langton in Leicestershire, England. The parish is part of the Harborough district. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the settlement name Shangton could mean 'shank farm/settlement', a long, narrow bent piece of ground; a narrow ridge or 'shank' projecting from high ground beside the village. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was approximately 125.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shangton

2 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
    Carlton Curlieu Hall

    Carlton Curlieu Hall is a privately owned 17th-century country house at Carlton Curlieu, Leicestershire. It is the home of the Palmer family and is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · country house in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Noseley Hall

    Noseley Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated at Noseley, Billesdon, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.5 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.

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Getting to Shangton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 40 km · Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 86 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shangton
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Shangton
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–11
  • Luton, Luton → Shangton
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shangton

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 Shangton. 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

    210 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    433 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    468 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shangton

Shangton is 16 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Illston on the Hillvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Carlton Curlieuvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3 km
  • Stonton Wyvillehamlet in Leicestershire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Gloostonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Noseleyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Tur Langtonvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK2.1 km