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

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.

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.

Concordia Theatre is a theatre located on Stockwell Head in Hinckley, England, located in the centre of the town. The theatre opened their doors publicly on 28 November 1972, with the first production at the venue being a sold-out production of The Sound of Music.

The Britannia Fields are a public open space at grid reference SP440919 in Britannia Road, Burbage, Leicestershire. The Fields land was once part of the ancient three field system which operated in Burbage during Medieval times. The hedge row at the western hedge of the field represented one boundary, and is one of the oldest hedges in Burbage at least 600 years. By 1838 on the tithe map of the village, number 651, the land was owned by Joseph Freeman, who gave his name to Freeman’s lane. This was pasture land known as Home Close which measured 2 acres 3 rods 22 poles (2.89 acres (11,700 m2)), and was let to Thomas Dowell. 18 shillings and 1d (£0.90) was paid in tithes to the church. In the 1930s, the area was used as playing fields for various local football teams. Britannia Buildings was originally a hosiery factory of Moore, Eady Murcott & Goode, built on the edge of the land in 1890s. At the start of World War II, the building was requisitioned and was home to a number of squadrons including a medical corps. Later a tank battalion which practised battle exercises on the playing fields. The most significant guests were the 307 Airborne Engineers of the U.S.A. 82 Airborne Division who were housed, and trained here from Feb to June 1944 prior to the D-Day landings. They often trained and played baseball on the field. Some of the survivors’ visited the site in June 2004 for the 60th D Day Anniversary. A number of temporary wood huts were erected as barracks for the troops which after the war were used as temporary housing up to the early 1950s when they were finally demolished. In 1951, these buildings were converted to a territorial barracks for D squadron Prince Albert’s own Leicestershire Yeomanry which used the area for training. By the 1970s, the barracks had become Britannia Buildings and houses a number of small businesses. Currently the area is used mainly for community events such as carnivals, fireworks, rugby, scouting and young children's play. The yearly summer carnival which is held on the Britannia fields, is organised by the Burbage carnival committee, whose purpose is to raise funds to donate to local good causes. This has been a very popular community event and has caused in over 1/2 million pounds for good causes. The carnival committee also runs the Burbage bonfire and fireworks display held on Britannia fields - all to support local charities. Sporting Uses: Britannia Fields is also the home pitch of Burbage RFC since 1984, and along with the Red Lion pub forms the club's home ground and clubhouse.

Gamecock Barracks is a British Army installation located at Bramcote, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Nuneaton in Warwickshire.

Royal Air Force Bramcote, or more simply RAF Bramcote, is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England used during the Second World War. It was later transferred to the Admiralty and was known as Royal Naval Air Station Bramcote, (RNAS Bramcote), and when commissioned became HMS Gamecock. When it subsequently transferred to the British Army from the Admiralty, it was called Gamecock Barracks.

Wolvey is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 1,942, which increased to 2,121 at the 2021 census.The village is located on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border in an outlying part of the borough of Rugby. The village is, however, more than 11 miles (18 km) north-west from the town of Rugby and closer to Hinckley (five miles to the north), Nuneaton (six miles to the north-west) and Coventry (ten miles south-west). The source of the River Anker is near the highest point in the parish, 130 metres. Originally on the main route between Leicester and Coventry, is now served by the B4065 and B4109 roads. The hamlet of Bramcote forms a western part of the parish, This was the site of a Second World War airfield, RAF Bramcote, subsequently used by the Royal Naval Air Service and renamed HMS Gamecock. Since 1959 it has been used by the army and is known as the Gamecock Barracks. Discoveries of Neolithic flint tools and Bronze Age burial mounds suggest early occupation of the parish while a major Roman road, Watling Street, forms part of the parish boundary. The village certainly existed in Saxon times and the Domesday Survey, compiled in 1086, records 22 households with three further households at Bramcote. By the 12th century there was an additional township, which included a chapel, at the now deserted site of Little Copston (Copston Parva). At this time Wolvey was an important population centre for the area with a weekly market and an annual fair. The village still retains some older buildings including the church of St John the Baptist with its Norman doorway and monumental tombs of Thomas de Wolvey (died 1311) and his wife Alice; also that of Thomas Astley and his wife, Catherine (died 1603). The South Aisle of the church was rebuilt by Thomas de Wolvey's daughter as a memorial Chantry to her husband Sir Giles de Astley who died following the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The church building has undergone considerable repair and alteration over the years. The chancel was rebuilt in the gothic style by Lord Overstone of Wolvey Grange in the mid-nineteenth century and the present porch to the south door added in 1909. The Millennium Building to the south of the church was built in 2000 to provide important support facilities. The early village would have clustered around the market place (now The Square) but there is little evidence of it in today's buildings.. A staircase dated 1677 in Wolvey Hall reflects the rebuilding of the original house but this was remodelled in 1889. Other late seventeenth century survivals, although modified, include Hollytree Cottage in Wolds Lane and probably 'The Blue Pig' public house with the village pump which will have served as a coaching inn for the Coventry – Leicester traffic in earlier times. The ‘Old Thatched Cottage’ on the edge of The Square dates to the later eighteenth century as does the Baptist Chapel, built in 1789. Essentially a farming community for most of its history, industrialization affected the village in the nineteenth century when knitting and weaving became important trades for a time. There is no evidence to support the popular view that it was a milling centre with 27 windmills. The well-known engraving of four windmills in Wolvey, published in 1854 by Thomas Dugdale, has been shown to be a forgery and was based on an earlier print of windmills on Montmartre, Paris. While rural industry continues, modern housing provides for a commuting population benefiting from the village's proximity to major motorway and rail networks and urban centres. The name Wolvey most probably came from the Anglo-Saxon wulf-hæg or wulf-heg e = "wolf hedge" = "enclosure with a hedge to keep wolves out".