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Visitors can handle rocks from Charnwood’s volcanic past, investigate the 4,000-year-old burial of the Cossington Boy, visit the Victorian grocer's shop or see a fly’s eye up close with a video microscope. [1] The museum is open every day and admission is free. [1] It has a café and a shop and is fully accessible to disabled visitors.
The Charnwood Forest Company remained independent until Grouping in 1923, [note 1] when it was taken into the London Midland and Scottish Railway on 14 July 1923. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] From the opening of the Charnwood Forest line, passenger trains on the Shackerstone-Coalville section of the joint line were worked by the LNWR, the motor trains working ...
Loughborough (/ ˈ l ʌ f b ə r ə / ⓘ [2] LUF-bə-rə) is a market town in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England; it is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council. At the United Kingdom 2021 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 64,884. [3] It is the second largest settlement in the county after Leicester.
Stonebow Village is a civil parish in Borough of Charnwood, Leicestershire, England. [1] [2] In 2021 the parish had a population of 9.[3]The parish was created on 1 April 2019, from parts of the parishes of Shepshed and Hathern and part of the unparished area of Loughborough.
Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in the north of Leicestershire, England. It is named after Charnwood Forest , much of which lies within the borough. Towns in the borough include Loughborough (where the council is based), Shepshed and Syston .
The local borough council is Charnwood. [3] The village's name means 'farm/settlement with a fortification'. [4] The village is listed in the Domesday Book, showing it comprised 15 households in the year 1086. [5] In the Middle Ages Burton was the property of Garendon Abbey. [6]
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The Charnwood Forest Railway was a branch line in Leicestershire constructed by the Charnwood Forest Company between 1881 and 1883. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] The branch line ran from Coalville (joined from the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway (ANJR)) to the town of Loughborough .