Great Glen
Great Glen is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is 2 miles south of Oadby and about seven miles south-east of Leicester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,980 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Glen Magna”, “Great Glen, Leicestershire”, and “Great Glenn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Glen Methodist Church and Church of St Cuthbert.
Great Glen Methodist Church
Church
Photo: Steve Rowe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Glen Methodist Church, Leicestershire, was built in 1827 and a church hall was later added to the east of the church in 1879.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newton Harcourt and Carlton Curlieu.
Newton Harcourt
Village
Photo: Richard Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newton Harcourt is a village in the civil parish of Wistow, in the Harborough district, in the English county of Leicestershire, and lies 7 miles south-east of the city of Leicester on the northern ridge of the River Sence valley.
Carlton Curlieu
Village
Photo: Andrew Tatlow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carlton Curlieu is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, about eleven miles south-east of Leicester city centre, and not far from Kibworth. Carlton Curlieu is situated 2½ miles east of Great Glen.
Kilby
Village
Kilby is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England. Kilby is the easternmost village in the district, and is 6.1 miles south east of Leicester. Kilby is situated 2½ miles southwest of Great Glen.
Great Glen
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Great Glen, Harborough District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.57364° or 52° 34′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.03451° or 1° 2′ 4″ westPopulation
2,980Elevation
325 feet (99 metres)Open location code
9C4WHXF8+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 26852483OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648097Wikidata ID
Q2645192
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Great Glen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Great Glen (Leicestershire)”
- Basque: “Great Glen”
- Bengali: “গ্রেট গ্লেন”
- Cebuano: “Great Glen”
- Chinese: “大格兰”
- Chinese: “大格蘭”
- Dutch: “Great Glen”
- French: “Great Glen”
- German: “Great Glen”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેટ ગ્લેન”
- Irish: “Great Glen”
- Italian: “Great Glen”
- Japanese: “グレート・グレン”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಗ್ಲೆನ್”
- Korean: “그레이트 글렌”
- Ladin: “Great Glen”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Glenas”
- Persian: “گریت گلن، لسترشر”
- Polish: “Great Glen”
- Portuguese: “Great Glen”
- Russian: “Грейт-Глен”
- Spanish: “Great Glen”
- Swedish: “Great Glen, Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Great Glen”
- Tamil: “கிரேட் கிளென்”
- Telugu: “గ్రేట్ గ్లెన్”
- Urdu: “گریٹ جلین”
- Welsh: “Great Glen, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- “Great Glen”
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Notable Places Nearby
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