Netherseal
| Netherseal | |
| Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's Church, Netherseal | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK286131 |
| Location: | 52°42’54"N, 1°34’37"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 923 (2011) |
| Post town: | Swadlincote |
| Postcode: | DE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Derbyshire |
Netherseal (or 'Netherseale') is a village in the very west of Leicestershire, a mile and a half east of the point where Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet, and a couple of mile north of Leicestershire's tripoint with Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 923.
The village is a mile south-west of Donisthorpe, on the north bank of the River Mease. Its sister village, Overseal is just over a mile to the north. The A444 and the M42 motorway run close by to the east.
Society
St Peter's Church is the burial place of the railway engineer Sir Nigel Gresley. The village was the birthplace of the historian Eben William Robertson. It has a couple of 17th–century almshouses, but the home of the Gresley family was demolished in 1933.
- Football: Netherseal St Peters
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References
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