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Brookvale Groby Learning Campus is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Groby in the English county of Leicestershire. [1] The school was created in September 2012 from Groby Community College and Brookvale High School. Previously they were both community schools administered by Leicestershire County Council.
Brookvale High School, opened 1976, was a mixed middle school in the village of Groby in Leicestershire, England, providing education for students aged 11–14. [1] It shared a large campus with Groby Community College [ 1 ] which takes pupils from 14–19.
Groby Pool. Groby Pool, "reputedly the largest natural expanse of open water in Leicestershire" is a 38-acre (15-hectare) lake located opposite the quarry on Newtown Linford Lane. It is owned by Hanson quarries and managed by English Nature and became an SSSI in 1956. Due to lack of drainage, "it is one of the most significant wildlife areas in ...
Elizabeth Woodville Primary School, Groby; Ellistown Community Primary School, ... Leicester Grammar School, Great Glen; Loughborough Amherst School, Loughborough;
Newtown Linford boasts a large number of old cottages with a lot of character - especially between Groby Lane and Markfield Lane. At the end of Groby Lane is the village cricket pitch. All Saints Church (built c.1400) is next to the cricket pitch, but the village cemetery lies at the top of the hill on Groby Lane.
Groby Old Hall, which may incorporate much earlier remains, remained a key part of the Groby estate, and shared in the changing fortunes of the Grey family. The point at which the former grand hall was demolished is unknown, and was the subject of an inconclusive Time Team dig broadcast in 2011. The red-brick gatehouse became what is now known ...
Bradgate House is a 19th-century ruin in Groby, Leicestershire, England.. Built in 1856 [1] for the seventh Earl of Stamford, George Harry Grey, it was intended as a replacement for the 16th century Bradgate House built circa 1520, built by his ancestor Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and home of Lady Jane Grey.
Groby Pool and Woods is a 29 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Groby in Leicestershire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Groby Pool is the largest natural lake in the county, and it is used by many wintering wildfowl.