Croft
Croft is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, off the Fosse Way, straddling the River Soar. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,639.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,770 residents
- Description: village in Leicestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Croft, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Michael and All Saints and Church of St Mary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sutton in the Elms and Narborough.
Sutton in the Elms
Hamlet
Sutton in the Elms is a settlement in the northwest of Broughton Astley, Leicestershire. Its name is sometimes abbreviated to Sutton Elms. Sutton is one of the three settlements mentioned in Domesday that now comprise Broughton Astley: namely Broctone, Sutone and Torp.
Narborough
Village
Photo: Kev747, Public domain.
Narborough is a large village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, around six miles southwest of Leicester. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 8,498. Narborough is situated 2 miles northeast of Croft.
Littlethorpe
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littlethorpe is a small village approximately six miles south of Leicester, separated from the village of Narborough by the Leicester to Birmingham railway line, and the River Soar of which it is the true discharge. Littlethorpe is situated 2 miles northeast of Croft.
Croft
- Category: locality
- Location: Croft, Blaby, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.55638° or 52° 33′ 23″ northLongitude
-1.24328° or 1° 14′ 36″ westPopulation
1,770Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CRLOpen location code
9C4WHQ44+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 27436569OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Croft” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Croft (lungsod)”
- Cebuano: “Croft (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Leicestershire, lat 52,56, long -1,24)”
- Cebuano: “Croft”
- Dutch: “Croft, Leicestershire”
- French: “Croft”
- Irish: “Croft”
- Italian: “Croft”
- Japanese: “クロフト”
- Polish: “Croft (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Croft”
- Russian: “Крофт”
- Spanish: “Croft”
- Swedish: “Croft (ort)”
- Swedish: “Croft, Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Croft”
- Turkish: “Croft, Leicestershire”
- Welsh: “Croft, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Croft Church of England Primary School and Croft Quarry.
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