Village in Leicestershire, England

Shackerstone

Shackerstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England.

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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shackerstone
106 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–18
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London → Shackerstone
157 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £16–21
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Luton, Luton → Shackerstone
111 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–15
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The field note

What is in and around Shackerstone, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Shackerstone has

YScheduled flightsNottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 21 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Hinckley, 13 km.

52.650°, -1.433°

It is situated on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal and the River Sence. According to the 2001 census the parish, which also includes the village of Barton in the Beans, had a population of 811, including Odstone which had risen to 921 at the 2011 census.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Train Photos (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.