Moira Furnace Museum
Moira Furnace Museum is a museum in Ashby Woulds, North West Leicestershire, England. Moira Furnace Museum is situated nearby to the forest Furnace Plantation, as well as near Centenary Methodist Church.Places of Interest Nearby
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. Donisthorpe Woodland Park is situated 2,300 feet south of Moira Furnace Museum.
Church of St John the Evangelist
Church
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Church of St John the Evangelist is situated 3,900 feet south of Moira Furnace Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moira and Donisthorpe.
Moira
Village
Photo: MaltaGC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Donisthorpe
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Donisthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe and Acresford, in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, historically an exclave of Derbyshire.
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.
Moira Furnace Museum
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Ashby Woulds, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.73292° or 52° 43′ 59″ northLongitude
-1.5358° or 1° 32′ 9″ westInception
1985Open location code
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Furnace Plantation and Centenary Methodist Church.
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