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Sheet Hedges Wood

Sheet Hedges Wood is in the parish of Newtown Linford, and lies some 1-mile (1.6 km) north of Groby, in Leicestershire, UK.

Sheet Hedges Wood
Sheet Hedges Wood · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sheet Hedges Wood is in the parish of Newtown Linford, and lies some 1-mile (1.6 km) north of Groby, in Leicestershire, UK.

The site is made up of two areas of woodland and a meadow field, all with public access, extending 29 acres (120,000 m2).

The woodland block is adjacent to the road includes a car park and access trails.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sheet Hedges Wood

10 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
    Bradgate Park

    Bradgate Park is a public park in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, England, northwest of Leicester. It covers 850 acres.

    2 km · 850 acre public park · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Groby Castle

    Groby Castle is situated in the large village of Groby to the north-west of the city of Leicester, England.

    1.1 km · castle in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Groby 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.

    1.2 km · house in Groby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The 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 km · Research and publishing house in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bradgate House

    Bradgate House is a 16th-century ruin in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England.

    1.8 km · Ruined 16th-century house in Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England. The chapel is still intact. · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cropston Reservoir

    Cropston Reservoir lies in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England. The dam and associated water works are in Cropston, while the bulk of the reservoir is in the neighbouring Newtown Linford parish.

    3.2 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's Church, Anstey

    St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church in Anstey, Leicestershire, in the Diocese of Leicester.

    2.7 km · church building in Anstey, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Lea Meadows

    Lea Meadows is a 12-hectare nature reserve east of Markfield in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.

    3.2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stoneywell

    Stoneywell is a National Trust property in Ulverscroft, a dispersed settlement near Coalville in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Stoneywell is the largest of a small group of cottages designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson.

    3.9 km · house in Ulverscroft, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Old John

    Old John is the highest hill in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England, on the southern edge of Charnwood Forest. It gives its name to the folly that stands at its top.

    2.5 km · highest hill in Bradgate Park, in Newtown Linford, Charnwood, 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.

Go there

Getting to Sheet Hedges Wood

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 19 km · Birmingham (BHX), 43 km · Manchester (MAN), 103 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sheet Hedges Wood
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sheet Hedges Wood
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Sheet Hedges Wood
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sheet Hedges Wood

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 Sheet Hedges Wood. 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

    221 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    289 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    411 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    421 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    446 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sheet Hedges Wood

Sheet Hedges Wood is 8 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ansteylarge village in Leicestershire, England2.3 km
  • Glenfieldvillage in Leicestershire, England3.2 km
  • Markfieldvillage and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England3.6 km
  • Newtown Linfordvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England1 km
  • Grobyvillage in Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Ratbycommuter village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England3 km