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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Blackfordby

  

Blackfordby Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Blackfordby

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Blackfordby history

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Charles Abney Hastings of Willesley Hall died on 30 July 1858, aged 66. By a deed of settlement, executed about 1846, the Blackfordby and Packington estates of Sir Charles passed to the Marquis of Hastings.

Blackfordby toponymy

The village’s name means ‘farm/settlement with a dark-coloured ford’ The village is named after a village with a ford.

You can visit Blackfordby places with Walkfo Blackfordby to hear history at Blackfordby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blackfordby has 29 places to visit in our interactive Blackfordby map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Blackfordby, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Blackfordby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blackfordby & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Blackfordby Places Map
29 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Blackfordby tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Blackfordby

  

Best Blackfordby places to visit

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Blackfordby has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Blackfordby’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Blackfordby’s information audio spots:

Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield is one of the smaller British coalfields . All of the worked coal seams are contained within the Lower and Middle Coal Measures which are of Upper Carboniferous age .

Holy Trinity Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Holy Trinity, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in Leicestershire.

Gresley Rovers F.C. Gresley Rovers play in the United Counties League Premier Division North, playing their home games at the Moat Ground. The club were reformed in 2009 under the name of Gresleys F.C. In July 2020 the club readopted their original name, Gresly Rovers.

Gresley Priory Priory was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Church Gresley, Derbyshire. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the priory church became the village’s parish church of St George and St Mary.

St George and St Mary’s Church, Church Gresley St George and St Mary’s Church, Church Gresley is a Grade II* listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is located in Church Gresley.

Moira Furnace Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal. Built by the Earl of Moira in 1804, the building has been preserved as a museum featuring lime kilns and craft workshops.

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