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National Cycle Route 15
National Cycle Route 15 is part of the National Cycle Network in the East Midlands which, when complete, will run from National Cycle Route 1 near Tattershall in Lincolnshire to Castle Donington in Derbyshire via Sleaford, Grantham, and Nottingham. Route The route is currently opened in a small number of locations and covers a range of roads, cycle paths, and shared use paths. Wilford to Bingham Wilford , West Bridgford , Radcliffe-on-Trent From the Wilford Toll Bridge the route follows the River Trent past Trent Bridge before joining lightly trafficked roads between Lady Bay and Radcliffe-on-Trent via the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre. From Radcliffe-on-Trent to Saxondale the route continues alongside the A52, before continuing alongside the former A52 through Saxondale itself then crossing the duelled A46 on bridleway bridge opened in 2012. Between Gamston and Radcliffe-on-Trent the route remains signed along its former alignment on the shared use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cycle Route 15 The Hook
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Trent Bridge
Trent Bridge Cricket Ground is a cricket ground mostly used for Test, One-Day International and county cricket located in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, just across the River Trent from the city of Nottingham. Trent Bridge is also the headquarters of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. As well as international cricket and Nottinghamshire's home games, the ground has hosted the Finals Day of the Twenty20 Cup twice and will host the final of the One-Day Cup between 2020 and 2024. In 2009, the ground was used for the ICC World Twenty20 and hosted the semi-final between South Africa and Pakistan. The site takes its name from the nearby main bridge over the Trent and it is also close to Meadow Lane and the City Ground, the football stadiums of Notts County and Nottingham Forest. History Trent Bridge was first used as a cricket ground in the 1830s. The first recorded cricket match was held on an area of ground behind the Trent Bridge Inn in 1838. Trent Bridge hosted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal ran 33 miles (53 km) from Grantham through 18 locks to West Bridgford, where it joined the River Trent. It was built primarily for the transportation of coal to Grantham. It opened in 1797 and its profitability steadily increased until 1841. It was then sold to a railway company, declined, and was finally closed in 1936. It was used as a water supply for agriculture, and so most of it remained in water after closure, although bridges were lowered. Since the 1970s, the Grantham Canal Society have been working to restore parts of it. Two stretches are now navigable to small vessels. A new route will be required where the canal joins the Trent, as road building has severed the original one. History The concept of a canal from the River Trent to Grantham was first raised on 27 August 1791, as a way of supplying the district with cheaper coal. The intent was for the navigation to join the Trent below Nottingham at Radcliffe-on-Trent. As William Jessop was sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muston, Leicestershire
Muston (pronounced ''Musson'') is an village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bottesford, in the Melton district, in north-east Leicestershire, England. It is 18.6 miles (30 km) east of Nottingham, five miles (8 km) west of Grantham on the A52 and 12.5 miles (20 km) north of Melton Mowbray. It lies on the Leicestershire/Lincolnshire county border, two miles east of Bottesford. The River Devon (pronounced ''Deevon''flowsthrough the village. In 1931 the parish had a population of 218. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and merged with Bottesford. Facilities The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is in the Belvoir Group of parishes, based in Bottesford, and under the Diocese of Leicester. Muston Meadows is a nearby 41-ha (101-acre) grassland nature reserve featuring 33 types of grass and over 100 other species of flowering plant. The reserve is notable for its colony of over 10,000 Green-winged Orchids. The 14th-century cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cycle Route 64
National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 64 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Market Harborough () to Lincoln (). The route is in length and is fully open and signed in both directions. There are three sections to the route, NCN 63 and NCN 15 form the links between these sections. History Between Cotham and Newark the route uses the track bed of the old Newark to Bottesford railway. From Harby to the outskirts of Lincoln the route is a railway path along the trackbed of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway. Route Route 64 starts in Market Harborough at a junction with NCN 6. It heads north through the Leicestershire countryside to Goadby where it is interrupted by NCN Route 63. It restarts at Owston and Newbold and then passes through the centre of Melton Mowbray. It crosses into Lincolnshire at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir and stops shortly after when it meets NCN 15 on the toepath of the Grantham Canal. Route 64 reappears at another junction with NCN 15 near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fosse Way
The Fosse Way was a Roman road built in Britain during the first and second centuries AD that linked Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) in the southwest and Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) to the northeast, via Lindinis (Ilchester), Aquae Sulis ( Bath), Corinium (Cirencester), and Ratae Corieltauvorum (Leicester). Roman route The word ''Fosse'' is derived from the Latin , meaning 'ditch'. For the first few decades after the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 CE, the Fosse Way marked the western frontier of Roman rule in Iron Age Britain. It is possible that the road began as a defensive ditch that was later filled in and converted into a road, or possibly a defensive ditch ran alongside the road for at least some of its length. The road joined Akeman Street and Ermin Way at Cirencester, crossed Watling Street at ''Venonis'' (High Cross) south of Leicester, and joined Ermine Street at Lincoln. The Antonine Itinerary (a 2nd-century Roman register of roads) includes the section between High Cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bottesford, Leicestershire
Bottesford is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir and forms part of the Borough of Melton, as its largest village, on the borders of Leicestershire with Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Location Bottesford is about east of Nottingham and north of Melton Mowbray. The village is the largest in the Vale of Belvoir and near to Belvoir Castle, home to the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. It had a population of 3,587 at the 2011 census, estimated in 2018 at 3,382. It borders smaller parishes in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, such as Redmile, Sedgebrook, Orston and Elton on the Hill. The local amenities include a post office, a railway station, a library, a church, a convenience store, three restaurants and three pubs: ''The Bull Inn'', ''The Rutland Arms'', and ''The Thatch''. Name Bottesford derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon "Ford belonging to the botl" (house). The ford was over the River Devon. Bottesford is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orston
Orston is an English village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, 15 miles (24 km) east of Nottingham. It borders the parishes of Scarrington, Thoroton, Flawborough, Bottesford and Elton on the Hill. The population at the 2011 census was 454. Governance Orston has a parish council and belongs under Rushcliffe Borough Council. The member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark constituency, to which Orston belongs, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick. History The place-name Orston seems to contain an Old English personal name, ''Osica'', with ''-ingtūn'' (Old English), a settlement called after, or connected with..., so probably, "farm/settlement connected with Osica". Some early spellings are ''Oschintone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, ''Orskinton'' in 1242, ''Orston'' in 1284, and ''Horston'' in 1428. It lay in Bingham Wapentake (hundred) until such units were abolished under the Local Government Act 1894. The population of Orston was 351 in 1801, 391 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aslockton
Aslockton is an English village and civil parish 12 miles (19.3 km) east of Nottingham and two miles (3.2 km) east of Bingham, on the north bank of the River Smite opposite Whatton-in-the-Vale. The parish is also adjacent to Scarrington, Thoroton and Orston and within the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The population was recorded as 974 in the 2011 census. Toponymy Appearing as ''Aslachetone'' in the Domesday survey of 1086; the place name seems to contain an Old Norse personal name ''Aslakr'' + ''tūn'' (Old English) meaning an enclosure, a farmstead, a village, an estate, etc., so "Farm or settlement of a man called Aslakr". There are 19 such place names (a Scandinavian personal name followed by ''tūn'' ) in Nottinghamshire, all of them in the Domesday survey, and all apparently ancient villages. Heritage All that remains of the 12th-century Aslockton Castle are some earthworks. The motte, called Cranmer's Mound, stands about 16 feet (5 m) high. Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whatton-in-the-Vale
Whatton-in-the-Vale is an English village in the Nottinghamshire borough of Rushcliffe. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir, with the River Smite to the west and the River Whipling to the east, mainly north of the trunk A52 road, 12 miles (19 km) east of Nottingham. It had a population of 843 at the 2011 census. Etymology The place name seems to contain the Old English word ''hwǣte'' for wheat, + ''tūn'' (Old English) meaning an enclosure, a farmstead, a village, an estate, ''etc''., so "Farm where wheat is grown." "In the Vale," ''i. e.'' the Vale of Belvoir. The place appears as ''Watone'' in the Domesday survey of 1086. Heritage Whatton Mill was a five-storey brick tower windmill built in 1820. It had four patent sails (sails with shutters instead of cloth), two of which were double. Milling ceased in about 1916. The capless tower is now a listed building. The Anglican Church of St. John of Beverley is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 14th century, but extensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bingham, Nottinghamshire
Bingham is a market town in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England, east of Nottingham, 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south-west of Newark-on-Trent and 14.5 miles (23.3 km) west of Grantham. The town had a population of 9,131 at the 2011 census (up from 8,655 in 2001, with an estimated 10,197 in 2019). Geography Bingham lies near the junction of the A46 (following an old Roman road, the Fosse Way) between Leicester and Newark-on-Trent and the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham. Neighbouring communities are Radcliffe-on-Trent, East Bridgford, Car Colston, Scarrington, Aslockton, Whatton-in-the-Vale, Tithby and Cropwell Butler. History The name "Bingham" is likely to come from an Old English personal name, ''Bynna'' + '' ingahām '' (Old English). The Romans built a fortress at ''Margidunum'' (Bingham) and a settlement at the river crossing at ''Ad Pontem'' ( East Stoke) on the Fosse Way, which ran between '' Isca'' ( Exeter) and ''Lindum'' (Lincoln). The south-east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamston, Rushcliffe
Gamston is a ward, civil parish and a suburb of West Bridgford, in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,164. It is situated approximately south-east of Nottingham and is part of the West Bridgford/Meadows/Sneinton postcode of NG2. The parish of Gamston comes under Holme Pierrepont and Gamston Parish Council. Gamston is split into Gamston North and Gamston South wards of Rushcliffe Borough Council; Gamston North includes Holme Pierrepont And Gamston Parish Council and the current Councillor is Jonathan Wheeler. Gamston South runs from Morrisons down to Edwalton. The parish and also contains the parish of Holme Pierrepont and the village of Edwalton. The population of this ward also taken at the 2011 Census was 5,337. It is one of the nine wards in West Bridgford. Most of the homes in Gamston were built since the 1980s as part of the expansion of West Bridgford. The homes range from 2 bed bungalows a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
