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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.
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 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 ...
Martinshaw Primary School, Groby; The Meadow Community Primary School, Wigston Magna; Meadowdale Primary School, Market Harborough; Measham CE Primary School, Measham; Mercenfeld Primary School, Markfield; The Merton Primary School, Syston; Millfield LEAD Academy, Braunstone Town; Moira Primary School, Moira; Mountfields Lodge School, Loughborough
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 ...
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.
Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers (c.1303-15 Sep 1343) was the son of William Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby and his wife Ellen. Henry Ferrers has been described by one recent historian as "arguably the most successful member of his family" on account of his being the only one, in six generations, to have succeeded to his patrimony as an ...