Woodhouse
Woodhouse, often known to locals as Old Woodhouse, is a small village and civil parish in the heart of Charnwood, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,319, including around 300 term-time boarders at the Defence College.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 215 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Woodhouse (parish), Leicestershire” and “Woodhouse, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary In The Elms and Quorn and Woodhouse railway station.
Quorn and Woodhouse railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ronstar308, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Quorn and Woodhouse railway station is a heritage station on the Great Central Railway serving the villages of Quorn and Woodhouse in Leicestershire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodhouse Eaves and Woodthorpe.
Woodhouse Eaves
Village
Woodhouse Eaves is a village in the Borough of Charnwood, Leicestershire, England. Nearby are the villages of Quorn, Swithland, and Newtown Linford. Breakback Road leads from the village to Nanpantan and Loughborough.
Woodthorpe
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodthorpe is a hamlet just south of Loughborough and a former civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. In 1931, the parish had a population of 53.
Quorn
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quorn is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, near the university town of Loughborough. Its name was shortened from Quorndon in 1889, to avoid postal difficulties owing to its similarity to the name of another village, Quarndon, in neighbouring Derbyshire.
Woodhouse
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Woodhouse, Charnwood District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.73412° or 52° 44′ 3″ northLongitude
-1.20174° or 1° 12′ 6″ westPopulation
215Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9C4WPQMX+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2106897751OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2633641Wikidata ID
Q8032747
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Woodhouse” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Woodhouse (Leicestershire)”
- Basque: “Woodhouse”
- Cebuano: “Woodhouse”
- Dutch: “Woodhouse”
- French: “Woodhouse”
- Irish: “Woodhouse”
- Ladin: “Woodhouse (Leicestershire)”
- Ladin: “Woodhouse”
- Polish: “Woodhouse (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Woodhouse”
- Swedish: “Woodhouse, Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Woodhouse”
- Turkish: “Woodhouse, Leicestershire”
- Welsh: “Woodhouse (parish), Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- Welsh: “Woodhouse, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- Welsh: “Woodhouse”
- “Woodhouse”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Windmill Hill and Swithland.
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Highlights include The Woodhouse Community Hall and MOD Garats Hay Sports pitches.
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