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Ashby-de-la-Zouch - Travel by coach - If you'd like to speak to someone about your journey
you can ring Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Travel by train - Leicester Station,
London Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 0QB. CCTV. Ticket
office. Waiting room. Refreshment facilities. Pay phone. Shops.
Toilets. Wheelchair accessible toilets. Whole station step free
access. Wheelchairs available. Leicester is about 18 miles from
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East Midlands
Airport, Castle Donington, Derby, DE74 2SA. Tel: 0871 919 9000.
Duty and Tax Free shopping. Aviation Gift
and Hobby Centre. Boots the Chemist. International Currency Exchange.
Spar World News. East Midlands airport is about 10 miles from
Ashby-de-la-Zouch. |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Travel by road - Ashby-de-la-Zouch is
about 9 miles west of Junction 23 of the M1 Motorway. The M1
is a north - south motorway which links London to Leeds. Ashby-de-la-Zouch
is about 115 miles from London and 90 miles from Leeds. |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Travel by road - Ashby-de-la-Zouch is
about 6 miles NE of Junction 11 of the M 42 Motorway. The M 42
Motorway begins at Junction 4A of the M5 Motorway (Bromsgrove),
forming part of the Birmingham circular before heading north
towards Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Ashby-de-la-Zouch is about 45 miles from Bromsgrove. |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch is about
18 miles frrom Leicester. |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Sport - Willesley Park Golf Club, Measham
Road, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 2PF. Tel: 01530414820. |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Shopping - Ashby-de-la-Zouch has a long
wide main street (photo right), with fine Elizabethan half-timbered
houses and delightful bow fronted Georgian shops. Woolworths - 33 Market Street, Ashby
de la Zouch, LE65 1AF Tel: 01530 412256. Photo
left: Ashby-de-la-Zouch town hall & market. |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Entertainment and attractions - Ashby
de la Zouch has an impressive ruin of a late medieval castle.
The castle was used as a setting by Sir Walter Scott in the novel
'Ivanhoe'. Along Ashby Canal towpath there is an enjoyable walk.
Twycross Zoo, Twycross,
near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. Tel: 01827 880250. About
7 miles south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Venture
Theatre, North Street, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65
1HS. Tel: 01530 560649 |
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- Other information - Ashby De La Zouch
Museum contains displays on Ashby's history. (Photo right). Ashby
Museum, North Street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire LE65
1HU. Tel: +44 (0)1530-560090. www.ashbydelazouchmuseum.org.uk |
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Airports indicated are Nottingham East Midlands,
Birmingham International and Coventry. Ashby-de-la-Zouch is about 9 miles west of Junction
23 of the M1 Motorway, between Loughborough and Kegworth. |
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- Foxton Canal Museum Tel: 0116 2792 657. foxtonlocks.com.
- Calke Abbey, Ticknall,
near Melbourne, Leicestershire, DE73 7LE. Tel: 01332 863822.
- Twycross Zoo, Atherstone, Warwickshire, CV9 3PX. Tel: 01827
880250. www.twycrosszoo.com.
- Leicester Racecourse
Co Ltd, Oadby, Leicester, LE2 4AL. General Race day enquires:
0116 271 6515. leicester-racecourse.co.uk.
- Deene Park, Corby, Northhamptonshire, NN17 3EW. Tel: (01780)
450278.