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  • ...has become a dormitory town for [[Loughborough]], [[Leicester]], [[Derby]] and [[Nottingham]]. ...[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simpsont/place_names.htm NTLworld.com]</ref> and also as '''Sheepshead'''. Its name in any form comes from the village's he
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  • ...south of [[Coalville]]. The village is on the A447 road Between Coalville and [[Hinckley]]. ..., 1960, page 125</ref> It is a Decorated Gothic building with a west tower and recessed spire.<ref name=Pevsner125/> The nave has two aisles; the north wi
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  • |name=Battlefield Line Railway |owned=Shackerstone Railway Society
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  • [[File:Ashby Canal Near Congerstone UK.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Ashby Canal near Congerstone]] ...rthern end, to service collieries. The canal was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1846, but remained profitable until the 1890s, after which it steadily d
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  • ...purposes it falls within the joint civil parish of Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe and Acresford. ...existing section of the ANJR operating as the heritage [[Battlefield Line Railway]].
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  • ...e]]. It is located just off the A42 road, four and a half miles south of [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch]] (the closest town), within the National Forest.<ref name="EX2 ...s (quite small), and as containing land for 3 ploughs, 20 acres of meadow, and a square furlong of woodland (10 acres).<ref name=Dome/>
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  • ...e is situated three miles south of [[Swadlincote]] and 4½ miles west of [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch]] in the [[West Goscote Hundred]]. The population of the civil ...([[M42 motorway|M42]] – [[Burton upon Trent]]) bisects the village and [[Nuneaton]] lies some 17 miles south of Overseal at the A444's terminus.
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