Lings Wood
Lings Wood is a forest in Empingham, Rutland, England. Lings Wood is situated nearby to the locality Bunker’s Hill, as well as near the hamlet Normanton Cottages.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ketton Quarries and St Peter’s Church, Tickencote.
Ketton Quarries
Quarry
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ketton Quarries is a 115.6-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Ketton in Rutland. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and an area of 27.5 hectares is managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
St Peter’s Church, Tickencote
Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter's Church, Tickencote is a Church of England parish church in Tickencote, Rutland. Apart from the chancel arch and the sexpartite vaulting in the chancel, which are Norman and date from the mid 12th century, the building was rebuilt in 1792 at the expense of Miss Eliza Wingfield by the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell.
Ketton Cement Works
Factory
Photo: Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ketton Cement Works is a large cement plant and quarry based in the village of Ketton in the county of Rutland in the United Kingdom. Now owned by HeidelbergCement, the plant produces around one tenth of the UK's Portland Cement needs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Empingham and Tickencote.
Empingham
Village
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Rutland Water area is in the county of Rutland and consists of a number of small villages and the lake.
Tickencote
Village
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tickencote is a small village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is noted for St Peter's Church, with its Norman chancel arch.
Whitwell
Village
Photo: Carl Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitwell is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population at the 2001 census was 41. At the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and was included together with the neighbouring parish of Exton.
Lings Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Empingham, Rutland, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.6552° or 52° 39′ 19″ northLongitude
-0.5843° or 0° 35′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C4XMC48+37OpenStreetMap ID
way 234530247OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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