|
Syston
Syston ( ) is a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. The population was 11,508 at the 2001 census, rising to 12,804 at the 2011 census. Overview There has been a settlement on the site for over 1,000 years, the earliest records being in the Domesday Book as ''Sitestone''. The Roman road known as the Fosse Way passes through Syston, which is now largely a commuter town for the city of Leicester. Only the village of Thurmaston to the south separates it from Leicester. The large and impressive Church of St Peter and St Paul is the most ancient building in Syston, built in pink granite and white limestone with a proud west tower topped by a lozenge frieze, battlements and pinnacles. The church mostly dates from the 15th century but there is a 13th-century sedilia in the chancel and a tomb recess in the south aisle of the early 14th century. The stone arcading inside the nave has striking Perpendicular Gothic panelling which is also see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syston Railway Station
Syston railway station ( ) is a railway station serving the town of Syston in Leicestershire, England. The station is on the Midland Main Line from Leicester to Loughborough, down the line from London St Pancras. Early history The station was opened on 5 May 1840 as a minor intermediate station on the Midland Counties Railway line from Leicester to Nottingham and Derby. Shortly afterwards, the Midland Counties merged with the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway. Syston became a junction station on 1 September 1846 with the opening of the Syston and Peterborough Railway to Melton Mowbray, which was extended in 1848 to Peterborough. The north to east curve was opened in 1854. A replacement station was opened in 1874 when the Midland Main Line was increased from two to four tracks. Closure The station closed on 4 March 1968. The station building, having been hidden by fencing for many years, was later dismantled an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Syston
St Peter and St Paul's Church, Syston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Syston, Leicestershire. History The earliest parts of the church date from the 13th century. The nave and tower were restored by Frederick Webster Ordish Frederick Webster Ordish FRIBA (1821 – 22 September 1885) was an English architect based in Leicestershire. Life He was a pupil of Henry Isaac Stevens. Initially based in London, he returned in Leicestershire in 1850 and worked in partners ... of Queniborough at a cost of £1,600 and reopened in February 1872 The chancel was replaced in 1880 at a cost of £2,300. Duston stone was used for the walls with Clipstone and Bath stone for the pillars and corbels. The floor was laid with Portland and red Mansfield stone, the aisles being laid with Staffordshire quarries. The carving was done by Thomas Earp of London. It re-opened on 27 May 1881. Organ The organ dates from 1887 and is by Taylor of Leicester A specification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurmaston
Thurmaston is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Leicestershire, England, located within the Borough of Charnwood. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census, it had a population of 9,668. It is situated four miles north of the city centre of Leicester and lies just outside the A563 road, A563, Leicester's outer ring road. History and geography Thurmaston is bounded to the west by Watermead Country Park (which faces onto Birstall, Leicestershire, Birstall), to the north by Syston and to the east by Barkby and Barkby Thorpe. South of Thurmaston is Rushey Mead and the boundaries of the Leicester urban area. Rushey Mead was formerly part of the Thurmaston parish in the 19th century, before becoming a Thurmaston Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Urban District in 1894. In 1935, the district was annexed to the city of Leicester where it took its modern-day name of Rushey Mead. Thurmaston is split in two by the A607 road, A607 dual carriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syston Sports Stadium
Syston Sports Stadium also known as Syston Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing and Motorcycle speedway track located at Central Avenue and East Avenue, off the Melton Road in Syston, Leicestershire. Origins The stadium was built in 1929 in just five weeks for the Leicester Super Speedway, on farm land surrounding Lodge Farm. It was located on the east side of East Avenue and the north side of Central Avenue (found at the far eastern end of Mostyn Avenue) which in turn was located off the main road called Melton Road. It should not be confused with the Syston Sports Ground which was located just yards to the north and also ran alongside East Avenue. Speedway The stadium was originally built for speedway which was held in 1930 & 1931. Greyhound Racing The stadium opened to greyhound racing during 1931 and the racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the National Greyhound Racing Club). Racing was held on Thursday and Saturday evenings with trial da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Nottingham and Sheffield in the Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester, Derby/Nottingham and Chesterfield in the East Midlands. Express passenger services on the line are operated by East Midlands Railway. The line is electrified between St Pancras and Corby and the section south of Bedford forms the northern half of the Thameslink network, with a semi-fast service to Brighton and other suburban services. A northern part of the route, between Derby and Chesterfield, also forms part of the Cross Country Route operated by CrossCountry. Tracks from Nottingham to Leeds via Barnsley and Sheffield are shared with Northern. East Midlands Railway also operates regional and local services using parts of the line. The Midland Main Line is to receive a major upgrade of new digital signalling and full line electrification from London to Sheffield. HS2 is to branch onto th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahalia Burkmar
Mahalia Burkmar (born 1 May 1998), known mononymously as Mahalia, is a British singer, songwriter and actress. Mahalia has released several EPs and two albums, ''Diary of Me'' (2016) and '' Love and Compromise'' (2019). She also acted in the film ''Brotherhood'' (2016). She had her breakthrough in 2017 with her performance of "Sober" for the YouTube channel Colors. In 2018, she was ranked number one on YouTube's Ones to Watch list. Life and career Mahalia is from Syston, Charnwood, in Leicestershire. She was born to musician parents. Her father is British-Irish and her mother is Jamaican. Mahalia has described the town she grew up in as a predominantly white area with "a lot of racism". She has two brothers. She attended Roundhill Community College until she signed a record deal aged 13, when she transferred to a performing arts school, Birmingham Ormiston Academy,where she took acting classes. As a child she would often spend her summer breaks at home writing music—she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A46 Road
The A46 is a major A road in England. It starts east of Bath, Somerset and ends in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, but it does not form a continuous route. Large portions of the old road have been lost, bypassed, or replaced by motorway development. Between Leicester and Lincoln the road follows the course of the Roman Fosse Way, but between Bath and Leicester, two cities also linked by the Fosse Way, it follows a more westerly course. History It opened in June 1974. The original (1923) route of the A46 was from Bath to Laceby, passing through Cheltenham, Broadway, Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, Leicester, Newark and Lincoln. Unusually for such a long road, no changes were made to its route until the 1970s. In recent years the central sections of the road have been rerouted and renumbered substantially, and there are now two sections where there are gaps of over where the road does not exist at all. The A46 has also been extended from Laceby to Grimsby and Cleethorpes - the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charnwood (UK Parliament Constituency)
Charnwood is a constituency in Leicestershire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Edward Argar, a Conservative. Constituency profile The seat emerged from the Boundary Commission report of 1995 reflecting population increases in Leicestershire for the 1997 general election; the largest part of it was previously in Loughborough. To date Charnwood has been a Conservative Party stronghold. It mostly comprises affluent commuter villages to the north of Leicester and south of Loughborough; its residents are slightly wealthier than the UK average. Boundaries 1997–2010: The Borough of Charnwood wards of Birstall Goscote, Birstall Greengate, Birstall Netherhall, Birstall Riverside, Birstall Stonehill, Bradgate, East Goscote, Mountsorrel and Rothley, Queniborough, Six Hills, Syston, Thurcaston, Thurmaston, Woodhouse and Swithland, the District of Blaby wards of Ellis, Fairestone, Kirby, Leicester Forest East, the Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charnwood (borough)
The Borough of Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in the north of Leicestershire, England, which has a population of 166,100 as of the 2011 census. It borders Melton to the east, Harborough to the south east, Leicester and Blaby to the south, Hinckley and Bosworth to the south west, North West Leicestershire to the west and Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire to the north. It is named after Charnwood Forest, an area which the borough contains much of. The administrative centre of the borough is located in Loughborough, which is also the district's largest town and its main commercial centre. The town is also the location of Loughborough University. Other notable settlements include Shepshed, Syston, Birstall and Thurmaston. History The district of Charnwood was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the municipal borough of Loughborough, the Shepshed urban district and the Barrow upon Soar Rural District. It was then granted borough status on 15 May 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queniborough
Queniborough is an English village in the county of Leicestershire 2.5 miles (4 km) north-east of the town of Syston and of 7.5 miles (12 km) north-east of the city of Leicester. Its 972 properties housed 1,878 registered electors in 2003. The population increased to 2,326 at the 2011 census. It forms part of the Leicester Urban Area due to its proximity. The parish church of St Mary's has, according to the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, "one of the finest spires in the whole of Leicestershire". History The place-name 'Queniborough' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, as ''Cuinburg''. It is listed as ''Quenburg'' in about 1125, in the Leicestershire Survey in J. H. Round's ''Feudal England''. It appears as ''Queningburc'' in 1236 and as ''Queniburg'' in 1242 in the '' Book of Fees''. The name is thought to be the Old English ''Cwēne-burg'', meaning "the queen's manor". The old part of the village, along Main Street, has a mixture of 16th–20th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pukka Pies
Pukka Pies is a manufacturer of pies based in Syston, Leicestershire, England. Products The company's products include single-serve and sharing pies, sausage rolls, pasties, catering sausages, frozen puff pastry, and non-meat foods, with the Veggie Leek & Potato pie approved by the Vegetarian Society. According to the company, the favourite pie flavours in the United Kingdom based upon its 2005 sales, were: A pastiche of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting ''Le Déjeuner des Canotiers'' hangs in the reception at the headquarters, with the original characters replaced by members of the Storer family. Pukka Pies are most commonly seen for sale in chip shops, stadiums, butchers, cafes, and pubs across the country. In 2008, the company started selling its pies in UK supermarkets for the customer to heat up at home. History A family company founded in 1963 by Trevor Storer and Valerie Storer as "Trevor Storer's Home Made Pies", it was named Pukka Pies in 1964. Today, the busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the National Forest, England, National Forest. It is situated to the north-east of Birmingham and Coventry, south of Nottingham and west of Peterborough. The population size has increased by 38,800 ( 11.8%) from around 329,800 in 2011 to 368,600 in 2021 making it the most populous municipality in the East Midlands region. The associated Urban area#United Kingdom, urban area is also the 11th most populous in England and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 13th most populous in the United Kingdom. Leicester is at the intersection of two railway lines: the Midland Main Line and the Birmingham to London Stansted Airport line. It is also at the confluence of the M1 motorway, M1/M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
