Village in Leicestershire, England

Shangton

Shangton is a parish and village 1 mile (2 km) north of Tur Langton in Leicestershire, England.

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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shangton
45 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £5–7
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Shangton
66 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–11
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Luton, Luton → Shangton
84 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
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The field note

What is in and around Shangton, 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 Shangton has

YScheduled flightsNottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 40 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: Leicester, 16 km.

52.562°, -0.935°

The parish is part of the Harborough district. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the settlement name Shangton could mean 'shank farm/settlement', a long, narrow bent piece of ground; a narrow ridge or 'shank' projecting from high ground beside the village. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was approximately 125.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: ReijiYamashina777 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.