Mountsorrel
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Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire on the River Soar, just south of Loughborough with a population in 2001 of 6,662 inhabitants, increasing to 8,223 at the 2011 census.
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Place details
- Locality
- Charnwood
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 17,297
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Mountsorrel
- UK place.population
- 8,223
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Charnwood
- UK place.shire_county
- Leicestershire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Charnwood
- UK place.post_town
- LOUGHBOROUGH
- UK place.postcode_district
- LE12
- UK place.postcode_area
- LE
- UK place.dial_code
- 0116
- UK place.london_distance
- SSE
- UK place.static_image_name
- Mountsorrel Butter Market.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Butter Market
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Named after
- Château de Montsoreau
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Charnwood
- Population
- 8223
- Image
- Mountsorrel Quarry - geograph.org.uk - 450992.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0116
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Mountsorrel
- postal code
- LE12
- P8168
- Heiko Bonan
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Geology
- History
- Early history
- Recent history
- The Butter Market
- The Old Rectory
- Industry and trade
- Market
- Quarry
- Rolls-Royce
- Sport
- Transport
- Notable persons
- References
- External links
Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire on the River Soar, just south of Loughborough with a population in 2001 of 6,662 inhabitants, increasing to 8,223 at the 2011 census.
==Geography== The village is in the borough of Charnwood, surrounding a steep hill, once crowned by a castle, and is bordered to the east by the River Soar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mountsorrel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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