Buckminster
Buckminster is a village and civil parish within the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, which includes the two villages of Buckminster and Sewstern.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 335 residents
- Description: village in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Buckminster, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Holy Trinity and Church of St Peter.
Church of St Peter
Church
Photo: SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter is situated 1½ miles east of Buckminster.
Church of St Andrew
Church
Photo: Plucas58, Public domain.
Church of St Andrew is situated 2 miles west of Buckminster.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sewstern and Sproxton.
Sewstern
Village
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sewstern is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Buckminster, in the Melton district of east Leicestershire, England. It lies just south of Buckminster, with which it shares a primary school, situated between the two villages.
Sproxton
Village
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sproxton is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Melton in Leicestershire, England, close to the border with Lincolnshire. It has approximately 80 occupied dwellings and a population of 480, rising to 658 at the 2011 census. Sproxton is situated 1½ miles northwest of Buckminster.
Coston
Hamlet
Coston is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Garthorpe in the Melton district, in the eastern part of Leicestershire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 74. Coston is situated 2 miles west of Buckminster.
Buckminster
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Buckminster, Melton District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.79674° or 52° 47′ 48″ northLongitude
-0.69602° or 0° 41′ 46″ westPopulation
335Elevation
518 feet (158 metres)Open location code
9C4XQ8W3+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 31822054OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2654393Wikidata ID
Q4983418
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Buckminster” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Buckminster”
- Dutch: “Buckminster”
- French: “Buckminster”
- German: “Buckminster”
- Irish: “Buckminster”
- Italian: “Buckminster”
- Ladin: “Buckminster”
- Polish: “Buckminster”
- Swedish: “Buckminster”
- Turkish: “Buckminster”
- Welsh: “Buckminster”
- “Buckminster”
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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 “Buckminster”. Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.