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    Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire on the River Soar, just south of Loughborough with a population in 2001 of 6,662 inhabitants, increasing to...
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    The Mountsorrel Railway was a network of industrial railway lines that served the granite quarries which dominate the Leicestershire village of Mountsorrel...
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    Vehicle Preservations – The Mountsorrel Railway". rvp-ltd.org.uk. Railway, Mountsorrel (8 August 2012). "The Mountsorrel Railway: Track Laying Passes...
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    1776306 The Mountsorrel Cross is a market cross that dates from the Middle Ages. It originally stood on Main Street in the village of Mountsorrel, Leicestershire...
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    Mountsorrel Meadows is a 12.6-hectare (31-acre) nature reserve on the eastern outskirts of Mountsorrel in Leicestershire. It is purchased by the Leicestershire...
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    wards of: Anstey; Birstall Wanlip; Birstall Watermead; Forest Bradgate; Mountsorrel; Rothley and Thurcaston. The Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth wards of:...
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    hectares (36 acres) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Mountsorrel in Leicestershire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site. According...
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    Trent at Trent Lock. Soar Valley embraces the large villages of Quorn, Mountsorrel, Barrow upon Soar, Birstall, Rothley and Sileby and a number of smaller...
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  • Lady Lever Art Gallery, Cardiff at The Broadcasting House, Mountsorrel at The Mountsorrel Memorial Centre, Larkhill at St Michael's CE Primary School...
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    mainline Rothley Nunckley Hill Mountsorrel branchline Mountsorrel Mountsorrel Halt Mountsorrel branchline Mountsorrel Belgrave & Birstall (Leicester North)...
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    boundary, with the neighbouring villages of Mountsorrel, Rothley and Swithland, encompasses Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel Quarry and part of Swithland Reservoir...
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    Birstall Stonehill, Garendon, Hastings, Hathern, Lemyngton, Nanpantan, Mountsorrel and Rothley, Outwoods, Sileby, Southfields, Storer, The Wolds, Thurcaston...
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  • Central Railway (Nottingham) at Ruddington in Nottinghamshire, and the Mountsorrel Railway near Leicester. The Great Central has a varied fleet of steam...
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    is the 8th Earl's son, Edward Horatio Coke, Viscount Coke (b. 2003). Mountsorrel, a village close to Leicester and home to the Earl of Leicester in 1151...
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    Mountsorrel (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Co-op Liz Blackshaw 853 52.7 Conservative Leigh Emmins 637 39.3 Labour Co-op Sebastian Russell-Smith...
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  • Ashby Birstall Shepshed BW LFEKM Earl Shilton EN Syston EMA Glenfield Mountsorrel Broughton Astley Sileby Lutterworth Groby Countesthorpe Below is a list...
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    Ambrose, K et al. (2007). Exploring the Landscape of Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey "About Natural Whetstones"...
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    Castle Hinckley Castle Ingarsby Monks Grave Kibworth Harcourt Castle Mountsorrel Castle Sapcote Castle Sauvey Castle Shackerstone Castle Shawell Castle...
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  • Ludborough, Lincolnshire Midland Railway – Butterley, Derbyshire Mountsorrel Railway, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire Northampton & Lamport Railway, Pitsford and...
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    North West Cardiff at The Broadcasting House for BBC Wales Mountsorrel at The Mountsorrel Memorial Centre for BBC East Midlands Larkhill at St Michael's...
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    followed by Victoria stone, which comprises three parts finely-crushed Mountsorrel (Leicestershire) granite to one of Portland cement, mechanically mixed...
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    million years ago. These are extensively quarried in the areas near Mountsorrel. The earliest form of the name Charnwood is probably derived from cerne...
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    The church is situated in the medieval heart of Anstey. Built from Mountsorrel granite and Swithland slate, with a Westmorland slate roof, the church...
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    500m 550yds SWITHLAND RESERVOIR Swithland Mountsorrel Branch Swithland Sidings Great Central Railway Mountsorrel Quarry Buddon Wood Filter beds Brazil Island...
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    now part of the A46. B674 (defunct) A6 in Mountsorrel B6047 in Twyford Declassified after the Mountsorrel, Syston and Rearsby bypasses were built. B675...
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    Drayton, Shropshire Marton, Lincolnshire Monk Bretton, South Yorkshire, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire Newport, Shropshire (Puleston Cross) Oakham Market Cross...
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    possibly of late Ordovician age, which places it at a similar age to the Mountsorrel granite formations. During the Triassic period, some 350 million years...
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    2003 until 2015 for Loughborough Nanpantan, and from 2018 for Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle. She worked as an adviser to her predecessor, Nicky Morgan, in...
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    crowd attended the hanging of Sarah Smith, a 28 year old woman from Mountsorrel. She had killed Elizabeth Wood, a woman in her care, by adding arsenic...
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    to the 912-foot (278 m) Bardon Hill, Leicestershire's highest point. Mountsorrel has the largest granite quarry in Europe, owned by the French company...
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