Stretton Baskerville

Stretton is one of the five wards of the village of Burbage parish council in the Hinckley & Bosworth borough of Leicestershire, England.

Sketchley is a former village and one of the five wards of the village of Burbage in the Hinckley & Bosworth borough of the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. It takes its name from the former village that also included a hall and church. It is now a suburb of the larger Burbage/Hinckley urban area.

Burton Hastings is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire.

Burbage Sketchley and Stretton is the name given to the ward and suburb of Hinckley in the Hinckley & Bosworth district in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is one of the six wards on Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council of the town. The ward is one of two (along with Burbage St Catherines and Lash Hill) of Burbage and covers the settlement of Leicester Grange and the suburbs of Sketchley, Stretton and Tilton.

Hinckley power station supplied electricity to the town of Hinckley and the wider Leicestershire area from 1913. It was operated by the Leicestershire and Warwickshire Electric Power Company Limited until nationalization of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The power station continued operation until the early 1950s.

Hinckley railway station serves the town of Hinckley and village of Burbage in Leicestershire, England. The station is on the CrossCountry Birmingham to Peterborough Line between Leicester and Birmingham New Street and is about 4 miles (6 km) east of Nuneaton. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, who do not operate services from this station. Only CrossCountry operate trains from here.A full range of tickets for travel is available from the station ticket office when it is open (06:40—13:00 Monday to Saturday, closed on Sundays), or at other times from either the ticket machines or the guard on the train at no extra cost.

Castle is the name given to the ward and suburb of Hinckley in the Hinckley & Bosworth district in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is one of the six wards on Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council of the town.

Tilton is one of the five wards of the village of Burbage in the Hinckley & Bosworth borough of Leicestershire, England, It was one of the many areas that now form part of the modern village and the surrounding urban area between Hinckley and Burbage. It is represented along with Sketchley and Stretton on the Burbage Sketchley and Stretton ward of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.

Coventry Road Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in Hinckley, Leicestershire. It was located along Coventry Road to the south, Trinity Lane to the east, with Trinity Vicarage Road to the north. Established in 1946, the ground had a capacity of 3,500.

Hinckley Priory was a small medieval monastic house in the town of Hinckley, Leicestershire, England.

Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England. It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughborough. Hinckley is about halfway between Leicester and Coventry and borders Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Watling Street forms part of the Hinckley/Nuneaton border. Hinckley proper was recorded as having a population of 34,202, in the 2021 census. Hinckley is contiguous with the village of Burbage. The population of the combined urban area of Hinckley and Burbage was 50,712 in 2021.

St Mary's Parish Church is the oldest building in Hinckley, and is situated in central Hinckley. It is an Anglican Parish Church in the Diocese of Leicester and is designated by Historic England as a Grade II* listed building. In addition, the North Chapel of the Church has been converted into a coffee bar.