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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Diseworth Donisthorpe Ellistown Heather Hemington Isley Walton Lockington Long Whatton Moira Normanton le Heath Oakthorpe Osgathorpe Packington Ravenstone Snarestone...
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  • Charnwood LE12 LOUGHBOROUGH East Leake, West Leake, Sutton Bonington, Long Whatton, Mountsorrel, Shepshed, Belton, Hathern, Quorn, Barrow Upon Soar, Sileby...
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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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    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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  • 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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    routes would undergo an overhaul; Skylink Derby buses ceased to serve Long Whatton and Diseworth from 3 October 2022. During September 2022, funding from...
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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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    Diseworth Donisthorpe Ellistown Heather Hemington Isley Walton Lockington Long Whatton Moira Normanton le Heath Oakthorpe Osgathorpe Packington Ravenstone Snarestone...
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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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    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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    David Whatton QPM is a retired British senior police officer. He was the Chief Constable of Cheshire Constabulary in Cheshire, England. He has previously...
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    Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw (category People from Long Whatton)
    Succeeded by William Brooks Baronetage of the United Kingdom New creation Baronet (of Crawshaw Hall and Whatton House) 1891–1908 Succeeded by William Brooks...
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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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    The parish has a population of about 1,800. Nearby places are Dishley, Long Whatton, and Zouch, over the border in Nottinghamshire. Residents of the village...
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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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    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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    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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    review of services across the network, the Skylink Derby stopped serving Long Whatton and Diseworth from the 2nd of October 2022. As of 2024, the fleet consists...
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