Drybrook Wood

Drybrook Wood is a locality in Charley, North West Leicestershire, England. Drybrook Wood is situated nearby to the locality Gun Hill, as well as near Ratchet Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount St Bernard Abbey and Blackbrook Reservoir.

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.

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.

Church of St James the Greater

Church

Photo: Andrew Tatlow, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oaks in Charnwood and Whitwick.

Oaks in Charnwood

Hamlet

Oaks in Charnwood is a hamlet of scattered houses in the English county of Leicestershire within the Charnwood Forest. Oaks in Charnwood is located in and is part of the Civil Parish of Charley in North West Leicestershire.

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.

Thringstone

Village

Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thringstone is a village in the North West Leicestershire district, in Leicestershire, England. About 3 miles north of Coalville, it lies in the English National Forest. Thringstone is situated 2 miles west of Drybrook Wood.

Drybrook Wood

Type: Locality
Location: Charley, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.74483° or 52° 44′ 41″ north

Longitude

-1.32738° or 1° 19′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C4WPMVF+W2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9896763867

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Colony Reservoir and Charnwood Lodge National Nature Reserve.

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