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Architectural Building Attractions In Leicestershire

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Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, Staffordshire to the west, and Derbyshire to the north-west. The border with most of Warwickshire is Watling Street . Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester located at its centre and administered separately from the rest of the county. The ceremonial county has a total population of just over 1 million , more than half of which lives in 'Greater Leicester' .
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Architectural Building Attractions In Leicestershire

  • 1. Staunton Harold Estate Ashby De La Zouch
    Staunton Harold is a civil parish in North West Leicestershire about 3 miles north of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish is on the county boundary with Derbyshire and about 9 miles south of Derby. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 141.A brook flows from the south through the parish, heading for the River Trent which it joins about 4 miles to the north. In the parish the brook is dammed to form a pair of small lakes. Nikolaus Pevsner described the view westwards across the lakes to Staunton Harold Hall and Holy Trinity parish church as unsurpassed in the country – certainly as far as Englishness is concerned.Downstream from Staunton Harold, just over 1 mile over the boundary in Derbyshire, the brook is dammed again to form Staunton Harold Reservoir. Most of the reservoir is i...
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  • 2. Blenheim Palace Woodstock
    Blenheim & Woodstock was a railway station constructed in the neoclassical style which served the town of Woodstock and Blenheim Palace in the English county of Oxfordshire. The station, as well as the line, was constructed by the Duke of Marlborough and was privately run until 1897 when it became part of the Great Western Railway. The number of trains serving the station was cut in the late 1930s, and again in 1952 down to only six trains a day. The last train ran on 27 February 1954 adorned with a wreath. The station building was initially converted into a garage and petrol station. Then the forecourt of the site was no longer used as a petrol station, but for used car sales only with a building company using some of the land behind the station. There were proposals for demolishing the b...
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