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Lockington, Leicestershire
Human settlement in England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lockington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lockington-Hemington, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. The village is close to the Derbyshire border.
Lockington | |
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![]() The coach house at Lockington Hall | |
Location within Leicestershire | |
Civil parish | |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Derby |
Postcode district | DE74 |
Police | Leicestershire |
Fire | Leicestershire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Although there is not 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]
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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][3]