Stoke Golding
Stoke Golding is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, close to the county border with Warwickshire.
Stoke Golding is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, close to the county border with Warwickshire. According to the 2001 census, the total population was 1,721 in just over 700 houses. The population at the 2011 census was 1,684 in 723 households. The village is 15 miles (24 km) from the city of Leicester, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Hinckley and 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Nuneaton.
The village is bordered on the west by the Ashby Canal, well-used for recreational purposes.
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Worth seeing in and around Stoke Golding
3 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.
- 01Kendall's Meadow
Kendall's Meadow is a 2.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Stoke Golding in Leicestershire. Over a dozen grass species grow on this traditionally managed hay meadow, such as common bent, red fescue, crested dog's tail and yellow oat grass.
1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shenton Hall
Shenton Hall is a country house opposite the church of St John the Evangelist, in the village of Shenton, in Leicestershire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.3 km · country house in Shenton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lindley
Higham on the Hill is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 840.
3.5 km · deserted village in Higham on the Hill, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stoke Golding
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 26 km · East Midlands (EMA), 30 km · Manchester (MAN), 104 km
- Stations
- Shenton railway station, 3.2 km
- London → Stoke Golding147 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £14–19
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stoke Golding115 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £15–19
- Luton, Luton → Stoke Golding102 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stoke Golding
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 Stoke Golding. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Stoke Golding
Stoke Golding is 19 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Shentonhamlet in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Stapletonvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Dadlingtonhamlet in Leicestershire, United Kingdom1.1 km
- Wykinhamlet in Leicestershire, England, UK2 km