Towns near Newtown Linford
Newtown Limford (1 Mile)*
Anstey (2 Miles)*
Anstey's role as a southern gateway to the Charnwood Forest is shown by the 15th century Packhorse Bridge, just a mere 5 feet wide, straddling Rothley River.
Bardon (2 Miles)*
Cropston (2 Miles)*
Cropston is a picturesque village, close to the late 19th century reservoir, which takes its name from the village.
Markfield (2 Miles)*
Woodhouse Eaves (2 Miles)*
Woodhouse Eaves is at the heart of the Charnwood Forest. Close to Beacon Hill (818 feet high), where once existed an Iron Age settlement.
Swithland (3 Miles)*
Swithland is a pleasant Forest village close to both the Woods and Reservoir, which also bear its name. The village is known well beyond Charnwood for its dark blue slate, which produced roofing material from the times of the Romans to the 19th century.
Glenfield (3 Miles)*
Glenfield has a prominent place in railway history, with the opening of the Swannington Leicester line, the first railway line south of Manchester.
Thurcaston (3 Miles)*
Thurcaston claims to be the birthplace of the martyred Tudor Bishop, Hugh Latimer. As a youth, he may well have been familiar with All Saints Church, parts of which date back to Norman times.
Kirby Muxloe (3 Miles)*
One of the country's most important monuments is in the parish of Kirby Muxloe. Built in the late 15th century by Lord Hastings, who was executed in 1483 before the building was completed, Kirby Muxloe Castle now has a Grade I listing.
Thornton (4 Miles)*
Rothley (4 Miles)*
Rothley is another stop on the Great Central Railway, a quiet village on the eastern edge of the Charnwood Forest, originally built around Rothley Brook, a tributary of the Soar.
Bagworth (5 Miles)*
Sprowston (5 Miles)*
Quorn (5 Miles)*
Quorn is known world-wide for its link with Hugo Meynell, a dominant figure in English foxhunting who lived at Quorn Hall from 1753-1800.
* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.


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