Charley
Charley is a civil parish located in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 203, increasing to 236 at the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 205 residents
- Description: civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Charley, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackbrook Reservoir and Mount St Bernard Abbey.
Blackbrook Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Richard Guise, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackbrook Reservoir is a 33.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Shepshed and Whitwick in Leicestershire. The reservoir was constructed in 1796 in order to feed the Charnwood Forest Canal, which has long since vanished.
Mount St Bernard Abbey
Monastery
Photo: Gtatler, Public domain.
Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery belonging to the Trappist Order, near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coalville and Whitwick.
Coalville
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coalville is a town in the district of North West Leicestershire in Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. In 2011, it had a population of 34,575.
Whitwick
Village
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitwick is a large village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, some two miles north of Coalville in the northwest of the county. Whitwick is situated 2 miles west of Charley.
Nanpantan
Village
Photo: MaltaGC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nanpantan is a historic village, ward and suburb of Loughborough, in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is located in the south-west of the town of Loughborough. It is home to Nanpantan Reservoir. Nanpantan is situated 2½ miles northeast of Charley.
Charley
- Categories: locality and civil parish
- Location: North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Charley” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Чарлей”
- Cebuano: “Charley”
- Dutch: “Charley, Leicestershire”
- French: “Charley”
- Irish: “Charley”
- Italian: “Charley”
- Japanese: “チャーリー”
- Ladin: “Charley”
- Polish: “Charley (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Charley”
- Swedish: “Charley”
- Turkish: “Charley, Leicestershire”
- “Charley”
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