Lockington, Leicestershire
| Lockington | |
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 The coach house at Lockington Hall | |
  Lockington Location within Leicestershire | |
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| Land | England |
| Sovereign state | Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Post town | Derby |
| Postcode district | DE74 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Lockington is a village in the Leicestershire parish of Lockington-Hemington. The village is close to the Derbyshire border. The population at the 2011 census was included in the civil parish of Lockington-Hemington.
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]
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
- ^ "No. 27655". The London Gazette. 8 March 1904. p. 1537.
- ^ "Two embossed gold armlets". British Museum. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
- ^ British Museum Collection
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