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Scraptoft is a village in Leicestershire, England, which is effectively a suburb of Leicester. [1]

38 relations: A47 road, Beauchamp College, Brownfield land, Civil parish, Coventry, De Montfort University, Domesday Book, Fox hunting, Gartree High School, Gartree Hundred, Golf course, Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Harborough, Hundred (county division), Hungarton, Ingarsby, Leicester, Leicestershire, Listed building, Manor High School, Oadby, Midland Red, Natural burial, Norman conquest of England, Normanton, Rutland, Oadby, Post Office Ltd, Protected area, Quorn Hunt, Red telephone box, Rutland, Scraptoft Hall, Shilling, The Co-operative Group, Thurnby, Thurnby and Bushby, Thurnby and Scraptoft railway station, Village hall, Wetherspoons.

A47 road

The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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Beauchamp College

The Beauchamp College is an upper school and further education community college, in Oadby, a town on the outskirts of Leicester, England.

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Brownfield land

Brownfield land is a term used in urban planning to describe any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not or, in North America, more specifically to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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De Montfort University

De Montfort University (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Fox hunting

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers led by a "master of foxhounds" ("master of hounds"), who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.

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Gartree High School

Gartree High School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status. In May 2016 it received approval from the Regional Schools Commissioner to change its designation to 11-16, meaning it will take students through to GCSE from September 2017. The school is situated in Oadby, a town on the south side of Leicester, England., Notable former pupils include John Deacon of Queen. The school's mission statement is "Nurturing individual talents today for the challenges of tomorrow.".

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Gartree Hundred

Gartree was a hundred of Leicestershire.

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Golf course

A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.

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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.

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Harborough

Harborough is a local government district of Leicestershire, England, named after its main town, Market Harborough.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Hungarton

Hungarton (or Hungerton) is a small village in the county of Leicestershire, England, about north-east of Leicester and south-west of Melton Mowbray.

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Ingarsby

Ingarsby is one of the best preserved deserted medieval villages in England.

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Leicester

Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Manor High School, Oadby

Manor High School is a school with academy status for boys and girls, aged 11 to 16 years (school years 7 to 11).

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Midland Red

Midland Red Midland Red Omnibus Company Limited formerly Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited was a bus company that operated in The Midlands from 1905 until 1981.

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Natural burial

Natural burial is the interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to recycle naturally.

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Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Normanton, Rutland

Normanton is a village and civil parish on the eastern shore of Rutland Water in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

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Oadby

Oadby is a small town in Leicestershire, three miles south east of Leicester city centre.

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Post Office Ltd

Post Office Ltd (Swyddfa’r Post Cyf.; Oifis a' Phuist) is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Quorn Hunt

The Quorn Hunt, usually called the Quorn, established in 1696, is one of the world's oldest fox hunting packs and claims to be the United Kingdom's most famous hunt.

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Red telephone box

The red telephone box, a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar.

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Rutland

Rutland is a landlocked county in the East Midlands of England, bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire.

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Scraptoft Hall

Scraptoft Hall is a former Georgian country house in the village of Scraptoft, Leicestershire, England.

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Shilling

The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.

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The Co-operative Group

The Co-operative Group, trading as the Co-op, is a British consumer co-operative with a diverse family of retail businesses including food retail and wholesale; electrical retail; financial services; insurance services; legal services and funeralcare, with in excess of 4,200 locations.

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Thurnby

Thurnby is a village just east of Leicester's city boundaries, in the Harborough district.

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Thurnby and Bushby

Thurnby and Bushby, sometimes known as Thurnby is a civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

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Thurnby and Scraptoft railway station

Thurnby and Scraptoft railway station was a railway station in Thurnby, Leicestershire on the Great Northern Railway Leicester branch.

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Village hall

In the United Kingdom, a village hall is usually a building within a village which contains at least one large room, usually owned by and run for the benefit of the local community.

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Wetherspoons

J D Wetherspoon plc, branded as Wetherspoon, is a pub company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraptoft

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