Lockington, Leicestershire
Lockington is a village in the Leicestershire parish of Lockington cum Hemington. The village is close to the Derbyshire border.
Although there isn't 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]
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]
Notable people
John Gilbert Cooper, poet, was born here in 1722.
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27655. p. 1537. 8 March 1904. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
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- ↑ British Museum Collection [1]
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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