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    Ashby-de-la-Zouch (/ˈæʃbi də ˈzuːʃ/), also spelled Ashby de la Zouch, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of...
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    Ashby de la Zouch railway station is a former railway station at Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The Midland...
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    Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 31-mile (50 km) long canal in England which connected the mining district around Moira, just outside the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch...
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    The Burton and Ashby Light Railway was a tramway system operating between Burton upon Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch between 1906 and 1927. The tramway opened...
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    1922 (formerly station master at Spondon, afterwards station master at Ashby de la Zouch) W. Clements 1922 - 1924 (afterwards station master at Apperley...
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    Moira is a former mining village about 2.5 miles (4 km) south-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in North West Leicestershire, England. The village is about 3 miles...
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    Warwickshire boundaries. It lies off the A42, 4+1⁄2 miles (7.2 km) south of Ashby de la Zouch, in the National Forest. Historically it was in an exclave of Derbyshire...
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    Burton upon Trent on the current freight-only line via Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The possibility was studied in 2008 and again in 2016 but in both...
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  • Rosliston. Other attractions include: Ashby Canal Ashby Castle, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby de-la-Zouch museum, Ashby de-la-Zouch Bardon Hill - highest point in...
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    former line between Derby and Ashby de la Zouch, which closed in 1930. On 4 October 1976, a new unstaffed passenger station was opened by British Rail to...
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    tower. In 1873, another line had opened: the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway, to link Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Coalville in order to access the large coal...
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    reopening of the line to passenger services with stations at Kirby Muxloe, Bagworth, Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Moira and Gresley. ATOC estimated that the...
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    ordinary commercial railway operation, but a heritage railway operates near Market Bosworth. The area surrounding the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch was an important...
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    London, 1848. DONISTHORPE, an ecclesiastical district, in the union of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, partly in the parish of Nether Seal, W. division of the hundred of...
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    The Melbourne Line was a railway line which ran from Derby to Ashby de la Zouch. It was used by the British Army and Allied engineers during the Second...
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  • in Los Angeles, California Ivanhoe School, a secondary school in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School, an independent...
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    followed by the town of Loughborough. Other large towns include Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville, Hinckley, Lutterworth, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray...
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    junction 22 of the M1 motorway where the A511 meets the A50 between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Leicester. It borders the upland area of Charnwood Forest to the...
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  • Worthington to Ashby de la Zouch. In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, was using...
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    Stapleton; and Wharf Lane leading southwest to Sutton Cheney Wharf on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. The civil parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney is bordered...
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    death in January 1667. Henry Hastings was born 28 September 1610 at Ashby de la Zouch Castle, the family home in Leicestershire, fifth child and second...
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    (formerly station master at Heanor, afterwards station master at Ashby de la Zouch) Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick...
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    Hinckley (section Railway)
    to several rival strongholds—the royalist garrisons at Caldicote, Ashby de la Zouch and Leicester, and those of the Parliamentarians at Tamworth and Coventry—and...
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    Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal and the River Sence. According to the 2001 census the parish...
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    5 miles (8 km) southeast of Burton upon Trent and north-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Derby. It covers the suburban areas...
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    Hill is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in North West Leicestershire, England. The parish adjoins the Derbyshire...
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    Chilwell (section Railway)
    Chilwell was originally a hamlet on the road from Nottingham to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but along with Toton...
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  • list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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    Line near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, was using...
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    Battlefield Line is a preserved railway which runs over part of the alignment of the former railway from Nuneaton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is home to the Shackerstone...
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