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    Long Whatton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Long Whatton and Diseworth, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the English...
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    Long Whatton and Diseworth, formerly just Long Whatton is a civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The parish...
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    All Saints Church is in the village of Long Whatton, Leicestershire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Akeley East, the...
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    Diseworth is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Long Whatton and Diseworth, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the English...
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    Long Whatton and Diseworth Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Nicholas James Rushton* (Nick Rushton) 563 60.1 +2.8 Labour Robert Allan Haskins (Bob...
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  • William Brooks, 2nd Baron Crawshaw (category People from Long Whatton)
    William Brooks, 2nd Baron Crawshaw DL (16 October 1853 – 19 January 1929) was a British peer. He was the eldest son of Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw...
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  • Gerald Beach Brooks, 3rd Baron Crawshaw (category People from Long Whatton)
    Gerald Beach Brooks, 3rd Baron Crawshaw (1 April 1884 – 21 October 1946) was a British nobleman. He was a member of the House of Lords from 19 January...
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    are Zouch Marina and the clubhouse of the Loughborough Boat Club. The Long Whatton Brook joins the Soar between the two. The meaning of the name derives...
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    Loughborough and commander of the North Midlands Army. When the town fell after a long siege in March 1646, it was counted a great relief to the surrounding towns...
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    renamed Nottingham East Midlands Airport. The change, however, did not last long, and on 8 December 2006, the airport's name was reverted to East Midlands...
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    (distribution, who bought Central Networks in April 2011), which is based in Long Whatton and Diseworth; the area has around a 5,000 MW demand for electricity...
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    Diseworth Donisthorpe Ellistown Heather Hemington Isley Walton Lockington Long Whatton Moira Normanton le Heath Oakthorpe Osgathorpe Packington Ravenstone Snarestone...
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  • David Brooks, 5th Baron Crawshaw (category People from Long Whatton)
    David Gerald Brooks, 5th Baron Crawshaw (born 14 September 1934) is a British peer and politician. David Gerald Brooks was born the son of Gerald Brooks...
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    than a track known as Long Lane, which ran approximately east–west, stretching between two turnpikes, Bardon and Hoo Ash. Long Lane divided the parishes...
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    parish, along with a grange held by the Cistercian Garendon Abbey, had a long early association with the Burtons of Bourton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire...
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  • Little Stretton Little Twycross Littlethorpe Lockington Loddington Long Clawson Long Whatton Loughborough Lount Lowesby Lubenham Lutterworth Magna Park Marefield...
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    Simpson; in 1828, Mary Finch Simpson married Edward Dawson (1802-1859) of Long Whatton who by this marriage acquired Launde. They engaged Thomas Rickman to...
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    optional. As at May 1964 all Leopards had the O:600 engine and only the longer versions (.2 and .4) could be had with Pneumocyclic transmission. In 1966...
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    Diseworth Donisthorpe Ellistown Heather Hemington Isley Walton Lockington Long Whatton Moira Normanton le Heath Oakthorpe Osgathorpe Packington Ravenstone Snarestone...
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    such as Loughborough, Kegworth, Belton, Castle Donington, Diseworth, Long Whatton and Tonge. This school then combined with Shepshed High School to become...
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    East Midlands Gateway (category CS1: long volume value)
    spreads across the civil parishes of Kegworth, Lockington-Hemington and Long Whatton and Diseworth, all of which are in the district of North West Leicestershire...
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    memorial to those who died in the crash stands in the village cemetery on Whatton Road. There is also a plaque sited on the Ashby Road bridge over the M1...
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    visitors' centre, shops and cafés planned for the village centre. Measham has a long pottery history: extraction of clay was recorded in the 13th century. The...
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    B5401 (defunct) B5324 near Long Whatton, Leicestershire A453 near Diseworth, Leicestershire Now un-numbered classified, no longer a B road B5402 (defunct)...
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    government perspective, the service station is in the civil parish of Long Whatton and Diseworth, the district of North West Leicestershire and the county...
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  • Bingham 1635 - 1642 Rector of All Saints Church, Long Whatton He was buried in All Saints Church, Long Whatton, Leicestershire. Memorials of Cambridge. Charles...
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    Britain, which holds only about 30 people. To the west of the village was the Long Moor open cast coal mine managed by UK Coal. Over a three-year period from...
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    routes would undergo an overhaul; Skylink Derby buses ceased to serve Long Whatton and Diseworth from 3rd October 2022. During September 2022, funding from...
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    Donington le Heath Ibstock, Isley cum Langley Kegworth Lockington-Hemington, Long Whatton and Diseworth Measham Normanton le Heath Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe, Osgathorpe...
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    Diseworth Donisthorpe Ellistown Heather Hemington Isley Walton Lockington Long Whatton Moira Normanton le Heath Oakthorpe Osgathorpe Packington Ravenstone Snarestone...
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