Hemington, Leicestershire

Hemington infant school

Hemington is a satellite state of the metropolitan area of Castle Donington 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 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

  1. ↑ The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
  2. ↑ The Long Eaton and Sawley Archive, accessed January 2010
  3. ↑ Vision of Britain website
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ "Story behind the Hemington Quarry bridge in Leicestershire". BBC. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2014.

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


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