Thringstone
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,890 residents
- Description: village in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Thringstone, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Andrew and Grace Dieu Priory.
Grace Dieu Priory
Archaeological site
Photo: JohnArmagh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Grace Dieu Priory was an independent Augustinian priory near Thringstone in Leicestershire, England. It was founded around 1235-1241 by Roesia de Verdun and dissolved in 1538.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peggs Green and Whitwick.
Peggs Green
Village
Peggs Green is a hamlet within the parish of Coleorton, Leicestershire. For many years it had formed part of the civil parish of Thringstone, until this was dissolved in 1936.
Whitwick
Village
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Thringstone
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.75136° or 52° 45′ 5″ northLongitude
-1.36858° or 1° 22′ 7″ westPopulation
2,890Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)Open location code
9C4WQJ2J+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 30393259OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635919Wikidata ID
Q7798252
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Thringstone” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Thringstone”
- French: “Thringstone”
- Irish: “Thringstone”
- Polish: “Thringstone”
- Swedish: “Thringstone”
- Welsh: “Thringstone”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thringstone Chapel and Thringstone House.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thringstone”. Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.