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Towns near Gaddesby
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Barsby
(1 Mile)*
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Frisby on the Wreak
(2 Miles)*
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Thorpe Satchville
(2 Miles)*
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Hoby
(3 Miles)*
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Queniborough
(3 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. |
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Rearsby
(3 Miles)*
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Twyford
(3 Miles)*
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Brooksby
(3 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. |
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Hungerton
(3 Miles)*
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Great Dalby
(3 Miles)*
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Ashfordby
(3 Miles)*
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Ragdale
(4 Miles)*
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Lowesby
(4 Miles)*
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Thrussington
(4 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. |
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Syston
(4 Miles)*
In Victorian times Syston was a busy cattle dealing town. There is still evidence of the late 18th century development in its conservation area around the parish church of St. Peter. |
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