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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Cropston

  

Cropston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cropston

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You can visit Cropston places with Walkfo Cropston to hear history at Cropston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cropston has 37 places to visit in our interactive Cropston 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 Cropston, 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 Cropston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cropston & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 37 audio facts unique to Cropston places in an interactive Cropston map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Cropston Places Map
37 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Cropston places to visit

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

Newtown Linford Newtown Linford is a linear village in Leicestershire, England. It is located in a valley in the Charnwood Forest area. The population of the civil parish was 1,000 at the 2001 census, including Ulverscroft and increasing to 1,103 at the 2011 census.

St Mary & St John Church, Rothley St Mary & St John is a Church of England parish church in Rothley, England. It has a congregation of mixed ages and backgrounds. It aims “to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ”

Swithland railway station Swithland was a railway station on the Great Central Main Line between Rothley and Quorn and Woodhouse. The station was due to open in March 1899 but was never completed. The line through the station site was closed in May 1969.

Beaumont Leys Beaumont Leys is a suburb and electoral ward in north-western Leicester. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 16,480. Locally used in reference to the large housing estate, built within the administrative division.

Beaumont Shopping Centre The 301,099 sq ft (27,973.0 m) shopping centre is owned by British Land and managed by GVA. Beaumont Shopping Centre is in Beaumon Leys, on the edge of Leicester.

County Hall, Glenfield Leicestershire County Hall is a municipal building on Leicester Road (the A50) in Glenfield. It is the headquarters of Leicesterhire County Council. The building is located in the centre of Glenfield on the A50 in the area.

St Mary’s Church, Anstey St Mary’s Church is the Church of England parish church in Anstey, Leicestershire, in the Diocese of Leicester.

Thurcaston Thurcaston is best known as the home to Bishop Hugh Latimer. It borders the villages of Anstey and Cropston, as well as the Leicester suburb of Beaumont Leys. The Rothley Brook flows through the village, separating it from the A46 Leicester Western Bypass.

Anstey, Leicestershire Anstey is a large village in Leicestershire, located north west of Leicester in the borough of Charnwood. Its population was 6,528 at the 2011 census. It is a combination of traditional English village (with two village greens) and industrial town.

List of local nature reserves in Leicestershire Leicestershire is a county in the East Midlands of England. The area of the administrative county is 806 square miles (2,090 km) and the population according to the 2011 census is 980,000. Leicester City Council is a unitary authority, with seven district councils in the second tier. As of December 2017 there are 23 local nature reserves in the county, the largest is Burbage Common and Woods at 85 hectares (210 acres)

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