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Castle Donington
Village in Leicestershire, England

Castle Donington

Castle Donington is a market village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, on the edge of the National Forest and close to East Midlands Airport.

Plan a trip to Castle Donington→From Birmingham, West Midlands
Get in

Getting to Castle Donington

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    East Midlands

    The airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

See

Worth seeing

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    Castle Donington Museum

    4 Apiary Gate,.

Do

Things to do

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    Donington Park Circuit

    Motorsport race circuit, and museum with large collection of racing cars.

Eat

Where to eat

A number of restaurant possibilities on Borough Street in the centre of the village including Indian, Chinese, Italian, kebab, and traditional fish & chip shop. The airport has a number of fast food restaurants, most air-side with only one before security.

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    The Nags Head Inn

    Hill Top,.

How locals move

Getting around Castle Donington the local way

  • Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Roman Eisele (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.