Home Covert

Home Covert is a forest in Shepshed, Charnwood District, England. Home Covert is situated nearby to the town Shepshed, as well as near the village Nanpantan.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blackbrook Reservoir and Nanpantan Reservoir.

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.

Nanpantan Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Nanpantan Reservoir is a reservoir in Leicestershire, near Nanpantan. The reservoir, with a capacity of 132,000 cubic metres, was built in 1870 to provide drinking water for Loughborough. It is owned by Severn Trent.

Church of St James the Greater

Church

Photo: Andrew Tatlow, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Loughborough and Nanpantan.

Loughborough

Photo: Duncan Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Loughborough is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council and, in the United Kingdom 2021 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 64,884.

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.

Shelthorpe

Suburb

Shelthorpe is a ward and suburb of Loughborough, in the Charnwood district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.

Home Covert

Type: Forest
Location: Shepshed, Charnwood District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.7627° or 52° 45′ 46″ north

Longitude

-1.2797° or 1° 16′ 47″ west

Open location code

9C4WQP7C+34

OpenStreetMap ID

way 83629244

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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