Hemington, Leicestershire

Village in England

Human settlement in England

Lockington-Hemington

District

North West Leicestershire

Shire county

Leicestershire

Region

East Midlands

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North West Leicestershire

List of places: UK; England; Leicestershire

52°51′06″N 1°19′30″W / 52.85167°N 1.32500°W / 52.85167; -1.32500

Hemington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lockington-Hemington, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.^[1] In 1931 the parish had a population of 298.^[2]

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.^[3]

Hemington was historically a township and chapelry in the parish of Lockington.^[4] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, but on 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and merged with Lockington, on 14 May 1938 the parish was renamed Lockington Hemington.^[5]^[6]

Gravel quarrying at Hemington during the 1990s led to the discovery of three sets of remains from successive medieval bridges across the Trent.^[7]^[8]

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

^ The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
^ "Population statistics Hemington Tn/Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ The Long Eaton and Sawley Archive, accessed January 2010
^ "History of Hemington in North West Leicestershire". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ Vision of Britain website
^ "Loughborough Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ 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
^ "Story behind the Hemington Quarry bridge in Leicestershire". BBC. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2014.