Hemington, Leicestershire

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Hemington is located in Leicestershire
Hemington
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Postcode districtDE74
Dialling code01332
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52°51′06″N 1°19′30″W / 52.85167°N 1.32500°W / 52.85167; -1.32500

Hemington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lockington-Hemington, in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England.[1] In 1931 the parish had a population of 298.[2]

In 1790, the nearby Harrington Bridge was built to create a crossing of the River Trent. The new bridge was a toll bridge and everyone except locals living in Hemington or Sawley (in Derbyshire) were required to pay the toll.[3]

Hemington was historically a township and chapelry in the parish of Lockington.[4] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, but on 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and merged with Lockington, on 14 May 1938 the parish was renamed Lockington Hemington.[5][6]

Gravel quarrying at Hemington during the 1990s led to the discovery of three sets of remains from successive medieval bridges across the Trent.[7][8]

Although there is not a rail station in the village, East Midlands Parkway opened early in 2008 at Ratcliffe-on-Soar providing links on the Midland Main Line.

References

  1. ^ The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
  2. ^ "Population statistics Hemington Tn/Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  3. ^ The Long Eaton and Sawley Archive, accessed January 2010
  4. ^ "History of Hemington in North West Leicestershire". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. ^ Vision of Britain website
  6. ^ "Loughborough Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  7. ^ Ripper, S. and Cooper L.P., 2009, The Hemington Bridges: "The Excavation of Three Medieval Bridges at Hemington Quarry, Near Castle Donington, Leicestershire", Leicester Archaeology Monograph
  8. ^ "Story behind the Hemington Quarry bridge in Leicestershire". BBC. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2014.

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