Costock
| Costock | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 St Giles' Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK575264 |
| Location: | 52°49’55"N, 1°8’42"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 621 (2011) |
| Post town: | Loughborough |
| Postcode: | LE12 |
| Dialling code: | 01509 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rushcliffe |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Rushcliffe |
| Website: | https://costockparishcouncil.org.uk/ |
Costock is a village in the very south of Nottinghamshire, on the main A60, Nottingham to Loughborough. It stands less then two miles north of the border of Leicestershire.
Costock's closest town is Loughborough in Leicestershire.
Church
The parish church is St Giles, which was built in 1350. The church stands back from the main street of the village. Associated with it is a Church of England primary school.
The Anglican Community of the Holy Cross has had a small convent at Highfields, Cotham, since 2011.
18th-century visitor
The German traveller Karl Philipp Moritz stayed the night while on a walking tour of England in 1782:
- "There were three inns adjacent to each other in Costock, which, to judge by their exteriors, were dens of the most abject poverty. At the one where I stayed only the landlady was at home.... During the evening I felt a kind of fever, slept disturbed that night and lay in bed very long the next morning until my landlady woke me up, saying she was getting worried on my account. I decided to travel on beyond Leicester by coach."[1]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Costock) |
References
- ↑ Carl Philip Moritz: Journeys of a German in England in 1782, translated and edited by Reginald Nettel (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1965), p. 177.