Lockington, Leicestershire

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Coach house at Lockington Hall.jpg

Lockington is a village in the Leicestershire parish of Lockington cum Hemington. The village is close to the Derbyshire border.

Although there isn't a rail station in the village, East Midlands Parkway opened nearby in 2008 at Ratcliffe-on-Soar which provides links to the Midland Main Line.

Lockington Hall in the village was the home of a branch of the Curzon family. In 1904 Henry Curzon of Lockington Hall was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.[1]

In 1994 a hoard of Bronze Age items was discovered locally. The hoard consisted of the shards of two Beaker style pots, a copper based alloy dagger and two embossed gold-sheet armlets. These 4,000 year old finds are now in the British Museum.[2]

Notable people

John Gilbert Cooper, poet, was born here in 1722.

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27655. p. 1537. 8 March 1904. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  2. ↑ "Two embossed gold armlets". British Museum. Retrieved 2010-08-07. 

External links

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Towns and Villages of North West Leicestershire
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Small villages
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Coordinates: 52°50′54″N 1°18′28″W / 52.84833°N 1.30778°W / 52.84833; -1.30778

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