In Charnwood Forest also the tuffs are slaty and cleaved.

* Charnwood Forest

He was the author of the appendices on botany ( in part ) and ornithology in Potter's History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest ( 1842 ).

Another form of rail, the edge rail, was first used by William Jessop on a line which was opened as part of the Charnwood Forest Canal between Loughborough and Nanpantan in Leicestershire in 1789.

He joined the Mechanics ' Institute ( which had a library ), studied in his spare time, and collected insects in Charnwood Forest.

Closures in this period included: the Charnwood Forest Railway, closed to passengers in 1931, the Harborne Line in Birmingham, closed to passengers in 1934, and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, closed in 1959.

Meanwhile William Jessop, a civil engineer, had used a form of edge rail successfully for an extension to the Charnwood Forest Canal at Nanpantan, Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1789.

Cyclomedusa is known from Neoproterozoic beds in Ediacara ( Australia ), Finnmark ( Norway ), Charnwood Forest ( England ), Olenek ( Russia ), North China, Newfoundland, Northwest Canada, Podolia ( Ukraine ), the Ural Mountains ( Russia ), the White Sea ( Russia ), and Sonora ( Mexico ).

The western line was also opened-this was known as the Charnwood Forest Branch.

* 1796 While the lines to Leicester and Melton Mowbray were doing very well, trade on the Charnwood Forest Branch was very slow to pick up.

Meanwhile, the Charnwood Forest Branch was still struggling to attract any trade.

* 1848 The owners of the River Soar Navigation were finally able to officially abandon the Charnwood Forest Branch which had stood idle since 1801.

The now derelict Charnwood Forest Canal once linked Nanpantan ( on the West side of Loughborough ) with Thringstone, with goods being carried into Loughborough by a horse drawn wagonway.

Coalville is the administrative centre for North West Leicestershire District Council and a market town for the district ; it borders the upland area of Charnwood Forest which lies to the town's east.

When England ’ s first motorway the M1 was proposed in 1957 CPRE successfully campaigned for it to avoid the heart of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire ( the road was put into a cutting ).

Bradgate Park is a public park in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, England, just northwest of Leicester.

The area now enclosed as Bradgate Park was one of a number of parks surrounding Charnwood Forest.

The volcano itself was in the north-west of Charnwood Forest, and the whole area was in the southern tropic, off the coast of the continent of Gondwana.

* Prof Roger Mason, discoverer of Charnia masoni, one of the earliest known fossil animals, in nearby Charnwood Forest, whilst still at the school

* The Forest Chapel-Free Church ( Charnwood Drive )

* Forest Chapel Daycare ( Charnwood Drive )

Shepshed was briefly linked by canal to Loughborough, and to the coalmines of West Leicestershire when the Charnwood Forest Canal was opened in 1798, but success was only short lived.

The Charnwood Forest Railway ( nicknamed The Bluebell Line on account of the proliferation of the flower ) was opened in 1883, but regular passenger services ceased in 1931.

His attention was specially directed to the study of the igneous and metamorphic rocks in Alpine regions and in various parts of England ( e. g.: the Lizard in Cornwall, at Salcombe and in the Charnwood Forest ), Wales and the Scottish Highlands.

The village is represented at district level by two Charnwood Borough Council councillors for the Quorn & Mountsorrel Castle ward, Richard Shepherd ( Con ) and David Slater ( Con ).

It stretches from the outskirts of Leicester in the east to Burton upon Trent in the west, and is planned link the ancient forests of Needwood and Charnwood.

Loughborough ( or ) is a town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England.

It is the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and is home to Loughborough University.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of Charnwood in northern Leicestershire, and is a Patron of the Tory Reform Group.

It sits within the borough of Charnwood local authority, where Shepshed is the second biggest settlement after the town of Loughborough.

Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough, and Coalville.

( The Borough of Charnwood covers roughly two thirds of Charnwood Forest, and the eastern half of the Borough is not part of the Forest ).

The earliest form of the name Charnwood is probably derived from cerne woda, from the Celtic carn, meaning cairn, and the Old English wudu, meaning wood.

Over half of Charnwood Forest is included within the National Forest.

Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the small village of Woodhouse on the edge of the Charnwood Forest, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire in the United Kingdom.

Rothley ( pronounced " Row-thley ") is a village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England.

Belgrave is bounded by the wards of Rushey Mead to the north, Latimer to the south, Charnwood to the east and Abbey to the west.

John Taylor & Co, formerly trading as Taylors, Eayre & Smith Ltd and John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd, and commonly known as Taylor's Bell Foundry or simply Taylor's, is the world's largest working bell foundry, located in Loughborough, Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, in the United Kingdom.

The Soar Valley in Leicestershire, England is the basin of the River Soar, which rises south of Leicester and flows north through Charnwood before meeting the River Trent at Trent Lock on the Nottinghamshire border.

The local borough council is Charnwood.

The largest of these was the firm of Bernard Beckworth on Cademan Street, which was established in 1875 and ran until the 1970s ; it is listed in Kelly ’ s Directories of Leicestershire from 1904 through to 1941 as ‘ Beckworth and Co. Ltd, Charnwood Mineral Water Works ’.

Thurmaston is a village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England.