Dishley, Hathern and Thorpe Acre, Loughborough

Dishley Grange is a house in Dishley, Leicestershire, just north-west of Loughborough on the A6 road. Dishley Grange was the home of the famous agriculturalist Robert Bakewell (1725–1795). However, the present building was rebuilt in 1845 and was grade II listed in 1984.

Hathern is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. The village itself is located in the north of the district, and is just north of Loughborough. It is served by the A6. The parish has a population of about 1,800. Nearby places are Dishley, Long Whatton, and Zouch, over the border in Nottinghamshire. Residents of the village have, in recent years, campaigned to prevent the green "wedge" separating Loughborough, Shepshed and Hathern from being built on. The village is home to the Swift Sock Factory, one of only a small number of independent sock manufacturers left in the UK.

Thorpe Acre is an area of Loughborough, Leicestershire. Until the mid-twentieth century, it was a hamlet of about twenty houses or cottages, several of which survive. There is also a nineteenth-century church with contemporary extensions, All Saints Church Thorpe Acre with Dishley (not to be confused with All Saints Church in Loughborough town centre), as well as an old hostelry, The Plough Inn. The population is included in the Loughborough-Garendon and Loughborough Ashby Wards of Charnwood Borough Council. Following the Second World War, Loughborough needed more housing and part of Thorpe Acre was developed, largely for employees of Brush Engineering Works, during the 1950s. A new shopping area with a selection of local shops, now known colloquially as The Ville, was built. It was at this time that the village green was created; the area where the green is was formerly built-up. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Thorpe Acre was chosen for a large new housing estate; these developments have completely subsumed the old village. Two of Loughborough's secondary schools, Charnwood College and De Lisle College are located on the edge of the estate, as well as Maplewell Hall and Ashmount special schools. In recent years, the council estates have suffered from crime problems and antisocial behaviour not unlike such problems experienced on many council estates up and down the United Kingdom. The area lies on the boundary of Garendon Park, one of the great Leicestershire deer parks of the eighteenth century. All Saints Church, Thorpe Acre with Dishley, was built in 1845 and extended in 1965. Dishley Church is now a ruin on the Derby Road, Loughborough. Robert Bakewell (1726–1795), the agriculturalist, is buried there.Thorpe Acre has a men's football team, established in 2017, which plays in the North Leicestershire Football League and is managed by Declan Bestwick.

Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Garendon Hall was a country home near Shepshed, Leicestershire, England. It was demolished in 1964.

Zouch is a hamlet in south west Nottinghamshire, England. It is located between Hathern and Normanton on Soar and is situated by the River Soar, which marks the county boundary with Leicestershire.Most of the hamlet lies in the civil parish of Sutton Bonington, apart from Zouch Farm which falls within Normanton on Soar parish, and the part in Leicestershire which is in Hathern parish. The nearest town is Loughborough. The A6006 road passes through the hamlet and crosses the Soar on Zouch Bridge (alternatively "County Bridge" as it spans the county border). The elevation of Zouch is 30 metres (98 ft).There is a pub in the hamlet, the Rose and Crown, with one side of the pub on Main Street and the other on the bank of the Zouch Cut canal. On the far western end of the hamlet, on the Leicestershire side of Zouch Bridge, is the County Bridge Mobile Home Park, where tent pitching is available.

Garendon is a ward and suburb of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England.

Hastings is a ward and suburb of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England.

Stonebow Village is a civil parish in Borough of Charnwood, Leicestershire, England. In 2021 the parish had a population of 9. The parish was created on 1 April 2019, from parts of the parishes of Shepshed and Hathern and part of the unparished area of Loughborough. It is bordered to the west by the parish of Shepshed (the M1 motorway forming the boundary), to the north by Hathern, and to the east and south by Loughborough. The Garendon Park Development, also known as the West of Loughborough Sustainable Urban Extension, is a proposed development of 3,200 houses, with associated shopping facilities, schools, sporting facilities and employment areas, in the parish. It received outline planning permission in July 2018, and as of 2024 is being marketed by its developers under the name Garendon Country Park. As of October 2024 there are 13 listed buildings (the Triumphal Arch at grade I, the Temple of Venus at grade II* and 11 at grade I), one listed park and garden (Garendon at grade II), and one scheduled monument (the remains of the Cistercian Garendon Abbey) in the parish. All are within Garendon Park, the grounds of the former Garendon Hall. The highest point in the parish is Bellevue Hill at 68 m (223 ft), in the north, which has been described as "offer[ing] stunning panoramic views of the surrounding countryside". Stonebow Primary School, despite its name, is not in the parish of Stonebow Village but is in an adjacent unparished area of Loughborough.

Garendon High School was a middle school located in Thorpe Acre, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It contained three years (7, 8 and 9). Altogether, there were 558 pupils in the 2008–2009 school year. The school closed over Summer 2012.

Charnwood College is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form that is located on Thorpe Hill in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.

Burleigh Community College was a specialist Sports College located on Thorpe Hill in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.