Visit Moira, Leicestershire Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Moira, Leicestershire

  

Moira, Leicestershire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Moira, Leicestershire

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Moira, Leicestershire history

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Rawdon Colliery was worked for about 150 years. Its seams extended 6 miles (10 km) from the shaft. The pit survived Britain’s pit closure programme in the mid-1980s that followed the miners’ strike.

Moira, Leicestershire etymology

Moira’s toponym is derived from the Irish earldom of Moira, one of the titles of the Hastings family, which held Ashby de la Zouch Castle. The former local colliery, Rawdon Colliery, also bore a Hastings family name.

You can visit Moira, Leicestershire places with Walkfo Moira, Leicestershire to hear history at Moira, Leicestershire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Moira, Leicestershire has 28 places to visit in our interactive Moira, Leicestershire 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 Moira, Leicestershire, 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 Moira, Leicestershire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Moira, Leicestershire & the surrounding areas.

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28 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Moira, Leicestershire places to visit

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

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.

St Michael’s Church, Stretton en le Field St Michael’s Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Stretton en le Field, Leicestershire, England (grid reference SK303119) It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

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.

St Peter’s Church, Netherseal St Peter’s Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in Netherseal, Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade I listed parish.

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