Hemington, Leicestershire

Hemington is a village in Leicestershire, England.[1]

Hemington

Hemington Primary School
Hemington
Location within Leicestershire
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDerby
Postcode districtDE74
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

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.[2]

Hemington was historically a chapelry in the parish of Lockington. It became a separate civil parish in 1866, but in 1936 the parish was abolished and reunited with Lockington to form the civil parish of Lockington-Hemington.[3]

Gravel quarrying at Hemington during the 1990s led to the discovery of three sets of remains from successive medieval bridges across the Trent.[4][5]

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. The Long Eaton and Sawley Archive, accessed January 2010
  3. Vision of Britain website
  4. 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
  5. "Story behind the Hemington Quarry bridge in Leicestershire". BBC. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2014.

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