Shackerstone
Shackerstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal and the River Sence.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 988 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England
- Also known as: “Shackerstone, Leicestershire” and “Shakerstone”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shackerstone railway station and Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Shackerstone railway station
Railway station
Photo: Robpics69, Public domain.
Shackerstone railway station is a preserved railway station and heritage museum in the village of Shackerstone in Leicestershire, England. It is the terminus and the headquarters of the heritage Battlefield Line Railway, with the Shackerstone Railwayana Museum, tea room, shop, loco shed and main rolling stock located here.
Church of St Andrew
Church
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Andrew is situated 2 miles southeast of Shackerstone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Congerstone and Bilstone.
Congerstone
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Congerstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shackerstone, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in Leicestershire, England.
Bilstone
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bilstone is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shackerstone, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England.
Odstone
Village
Photo: Tony Teperek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Odstone is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shackerstone, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It stands on a marked promontory of high ground between two river valleys.
Shackerstone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shackerstone, Hinckley and Bosworth District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.65748° or 52° 39′ 27″ northLongitude
-1.44958° or 1° 26′ 59″ westPopulation
988Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)Open location code
9C4WMH42+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 27437343OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638161Wikidata ID
Q580423
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Shackerstone” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shackerstone”
- Dutch: “Shackerstone”
- French: “Shackerstone”
- Irish: “Shackerstone”
- Italian: “Shackerstone”
- Japanese: “シャッカーストーン”
- Ladin: “Shackerstone”
- Polish: “Shackerstone”
- Russian: “Шейкерстоун”
- Spanish: “Shackerstone”
- Swedish: “Shackerstone”
- Turkish: “Shackerstone”
- Welsh: “Shackerstone”
- “Shackerstone”
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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 “Shackerstone”. Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.