Husbands Bosworth

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Husbands Bosworth
Leicestershire
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Husbands Bosworth
Location
Grid reference: SP642842
Location: 52°27’9"N, 1°3’21"W
Data
Population: 1,145  (2011)
Post town: Lutterworth
Postcode: LE17
Dialling code: 01858
Local Government
Council: Harborough
Parliamentary
constituency:
Harborough

Husbands Bosworth is a large crossroads village in South Leicestershire on the A5199 road from Leicester city to Northampton and the A4304 road from Junction 20 of the M1 motorway to Market Harborough.

John Cooke, Solicitor General and later the prosecutor in the trial of Charles I, was baptised here on 18 September 1608 in the All Saints Church.

To the north of the village the Grand Union Canal passes through a 1,166 yard tunnel; the Husbands Bosworth Tunnel.

On the southern boundary of the village is a thriving allotment site, immediately adjacent to the village's cemetery.

Airfield

The nearby airfield (at SP650827) is the home of a gliding club, and a rapid response police helicopter unit, the East Midlands Air Support Unit.[1] It was originally constructed as RAF Husbands Bosworth during Second World War and subsequently was used to house displaced Polish families.[2]

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