Bardon Hill
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Bardon Hill is the highest hill in Leicestershire, at 278 metres. The hill is also a 13.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and has been noted in literature.
Bardon Hill geograph.org.uk 681852
Looking down from the Hill onto Bardon Quarry
A train loaded with granite chippings from Bardon Hill quarry departs south from the exchange sidings on the former Leicester and Swannington Railway
Charnwood Forest
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Charnwood Forest is a hilly tract in northwestern Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville. The area is undulating, rocky and picturesque, with moorland areas. It also
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…Queen Dowager. T. R. Potter describes the Royal scene in The History of Charnwood Forest: The hill is a surviving fragment of the formerly extensive Charnwood Forest, and it has both woodland and heath. Mature oak dominates the lower slopes, with pine plantation higher up, and a mixture of heath, acid grassland…
The summit of Beacon Hill
Bluebells in Swithland Wood
Old John, Bradgate Park