Hemington, Leicestershire
Hemington is a village in Leicestershire, England.[1]
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 cum 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 isn't 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
- ↑ The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
- ↑ The Long Eaton and Sawley Archive, accessed January 2010
- ↑ Vision of Britain website
- ↑ 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
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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