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Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire on the River Soar, just south of Loughborough with a population in 2001 of 6,662 inhabitants, [1] [2] increasing to 8,223 at the 2011 census. [ 3 ] Geography
Birstall village centre. Birstall lies on the A6 and is the last major settlement before Leicester when arriving from the north. Birstall thus forms part of the Leicester Urban Area. The village centre lies just off the A6, along Sibson Road. The village contains two supermarkets, a garden centre and a variety of other shops.
Soar valley between Barrow upon Soar and Mountsorrel. The Soar Valley in Leicester-and Nottinghamshire, England is the basin of the River Soar, which rises south of Leicester and flows north through Charnwood before meeting the River Trent at Trent Lock.
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
It is based in Leicester, and is managed by a Council of Trustees which is elected by the members. [2] It is a charity which covers all aspects of nature conservation, and works to protect wild places and wildlife. [3] Leicestershire has an area of 833 square miles (2,160 km 2), [4] and a population according to the 2011 census of 980,000. [5]
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Barrow-upon-Soar railway station is situated on the Midland Main Line, and East Midlands Railway trains stop there Monday to Saturday, there is no Sunday service. [4]The Mountsorrel Railway, carrying granite from the Mountsorrel quarries, used to run to here; [5] the line from Mountsorrel is still followed by a mineral conveyor to Barrow, where quarry rock is sorted for distribution.