Whitwick
Whitwick is a large village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, some two miles north of Coalville in the northwest of the county.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 8,350 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whitwick, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Three Horseshoes and Church of St Andrew.
Three Horseshoes
Pub
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Three Horseshoes is a Grade II listed public house at 11 Leicester Road, Whitwick, Leicestershire LE67 5GN. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thringstone and Coalville.
Thringstone
Village
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thringstone is a village in the North West Leicestershire district, in Leicestershire, England. About 3 miles north of Coalville, it lies in the English National Forest.
Coalville
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coalville is a town in the district of North West Leicestershire in Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 34,575.
Swannington
Village
Photo: Ian Calderwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swannington is a former mining village in North West Leicestershire, England. A document of 1520 mentions five pits at Swannington. It was a terminus of the early Leicester and Swannington Railway that was built to serve the townships of Swannington and Thringstone and is built on a spot reputedly chosen by William Wordsworth, a frequent guest of Sir George Beaumont of nearby Coleorton Hall.
Whitwick
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.73971° or 52° 44′ 23″ northLongitude
-1.35562° or 1° 21′ 20″ westPopulation
8,350Elevation
463 feet (141 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WWIOpen location code
9C4WPJQV+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 27042354OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Whitwick” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “হুইটউইক”
- Cebuano: “Whitwick”
- Chinese: “韋特威克”
- Chinese: “韦特威克”
- Dutch: “Whitwick”
- French: “Whitwick”
- German: “Whitwick Castle”
- Gujarati: “વ્હિટવિક”
- Irish: “Whitwick”
- Italian: “Whitwick”
- Japanese: “ウィットウィック”
- Kannada: “ವಿಟ್ವಿಕ್”
- Korean: “휘트윅”
- Ladin: “Whitwick”
- Lithuanian: “Vitvikas”
- Persian: “وایتویک”
- Polish: “Whitwick”
- Portuguese: “Whitwick”
- Russian: “Уитвик”
- Spanish: “Whitwick”
- Swedish: “Whitwick”
- Tamil: “வ்ஹீட்விக்”
- Telugu: “విట్విక్”
- Turkish: “Whitwick”
- Urdu: “وہیتویک”
- Welsh: “Whitwick”
- “Whitwick”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Temple Hill and Broad Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Whitwick Post Office and Whitwick Methodist Church.
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