Towns near Frisby on the Wreak
Ashfordby (1 Mile)*
Hoby (1 Mile)*
Brooksby (2 Miles)*
Brooksby is now home to the county's Agricultural College, but was once the seat of the Villiers family. Its most famous son, George, born in 1592 at Brooksby, rose to be the favourite of two Stuart monarchs.
Gaddesby (2 Miles)*
Ragdale (2 Miles)*
Saxelby (2 Miles)*
Rearsby (3 Miles)*
Thrussington (3 Miles)*
Thrussington has some interesting 18th century properties surrounding the village green. It is the birthplace in 1782, of artist, John Ferneley, who depicted much of Leicestershire's 19th century hunting scene.
Grimston (3 Miles)*
Barsby (3 Miles)*
Queniborough (4 Miles)*
Queniborough is a pleasing conservation village with visible links back to the Civil War period. A 175 feet high crocketed spire, acknowledged by Pevsner to be one of the finest in Leicestershire, caps St. Mary's Church.
Wartnaby (4 Miles)*
Ab Kettleby (4 Miles)*
Thorpe Satchville (4 Miles)*
Melton Mowbray (4 Miles)*
The Market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, perhaps most famous for its Pork Pies, is situated in Fox Hunting country, where the three hunts The Quorn, The Belvoir and the Cottesmore meet.
* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.


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