Moira
Moira is a former mining village about 2.5 miles south-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in North West Leicestershire, England. The village is about 3 miles south of Swadlincote and is close to the boundary with Derbyshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,460 residents
- Description: village in Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Moira, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moira Furnace and Donisthorpe Woodland Park.
Moira Furnace
Industrial building
Photo: MaltaGC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. Built by the Earl of Moira in 1804, the building has been preserved by North West Leicestershire District Council as a museum featuring lime kilns and craft workshops.
Donisthorpe Woodland Park
Park
Donisthorpe Woodland Park is located on Church Street, Donisthorpe, in North West Leicestershire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Short Heath and Donisthorpe.
Short Heath
Hamlet
Photo: cris sloan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Short Heath is a hamlet near Overseal, in South Derbyshire. It is on the border with Leicestershire and has a sign where it claims to be the centre of England.
Donisthorpe
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Donisthorpe is a village in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, historically an exclave of Derbyshire.
Willesley
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Willesley is a historic village, ward and suburb of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.
Moira
- Category: locality
- Location: Ashby Woulds, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.73621° or 52° 44′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.53447° or 1° 32′ 4″ westPopulation
2,460Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MQROpen location code
9C4WPFP8+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 27044143OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Moira” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Moira (Leicestershire)”
- Basque: “Moira”
- Dutch: “Moira, Leicestershire”
- French: “Moira”
- Irish: “Moira”
- Italian: “Moira”
- Japanese: “モイラ”
- Polish: “Moira”
- Spanish: “Moira (Leicestershire)”
- Spanish: “Moira”
- Welsh: “Moira, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
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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 “Moira”. Photo: MaltaGC, CC BY-SA 3.0.