Priors Close

Priors Close is a park in Melton District, Leicestershire, England. Priors Close is situated nearby to the park Play Close, as well as near Melton Mowbray Railway Station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Melton Mowbray railway station and Melton Carnegie Museum.

Melton Mowbray railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Melton Mowbray railway station serves the market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by East Midlands Railway, though CrossCountry operates most of the services as part of its Birmingham New Street to Stansted Airport route. Melton Mowbray railway station is situated 550 feet southeast of Priors Close.

Melton Carnegie Museum

Museum

Photo: Brian Green, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Melton Carnegie Museum is a museum in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, which documents the history of the market town. It is managed by Leicestershire County Council and supported by Melton Borough Council and is Heritage Lottery Funded. Melton Carnegie Museum is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Priors Close.

Egerton Park

Park

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Egerton Park is a cricket ground in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The land for the park was purchased from the Egerton Lodge Estate by the Melton Mowbray Town Estate in 1931. Egerton Park is situated 1,700 feet northwest of Priors Close.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melton Mowbray and Thorpe Arnold.

Melton Mowbray

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Melton Mowbray, usually referred to locally as just Melton, is a market town in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is famous for the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and as the centre of Stilton Cheese production.

Thorpe Arnold

Village

Photo: Dave Kelly, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thorpe Arnold is a farming village in the civil parish of Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold, in the district of Melton, in Leicestershire, England. It is approximately 1.2 miles northeast of Melton Mowbray.

Burton Lazars

Village

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Burton Lazars is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. Burton Lazars is situated 1½ miles southeast of Priors Close.

Priors Close

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Melton District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.76185° or 52° 45′ 43″ north

Longitude

-0.88789° or 0° 53′ 16″ west

Open location code

9C4XQ466+PR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 93604458

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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