Swepstone
Swepstone is a village in the civil parish of Swepstone and Newton Burgoland, in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, about five miles south of Ashby de la Zouch.
Swepstone is a village in the civil parish of Swepstone and Newton Burgoland, in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, about five miles south of Ashby de la Zouch. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census 656. The parish includes the villages of Swepstone and Newton Burgoland. On 1 March 2023 the parish was renamed from "Swepstone" to "Swepstone and Newton Burgoland".
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Worth seeing in and around Swepstone
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.
- 01Kelham 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.
4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Sence 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.
3.4 km · English park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Swepstone
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 18 km · Birmingham (BHX), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 91 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Swepstone102 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £13–18
- London → Swepstone160 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £16–22
- Luton, Luton → Swepstone115 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swepstone
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 Swepstone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Swepstone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Swepstone
Swepstone is 23 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Snarestonevillage in North West Leicestershire, England2.6 km
- Meashamvillage in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Ibstocktown and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England3.7 km
- Packingtonvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.9 km
- Heathervillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK2.1 km
- Normanton le Heathvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK2.3 km