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LOCAL AREA HOW TO GET TO LUTTERWORTH

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Ullesthorpe Foxton Court Hotel Bruntingthorpe A5 M69 and Golf Club Air Museum Locks A6 MARKET Historic market town al ULLESTHORPE an HARBOROUGH CLAYBROOKE n C HINCKLEY PARVA nio M1 d U BITTESWELL an A5199 Gr NUNEATON 1 A426 LUTTERWORTH North Kilworth MARKET Wharf A5 HARBOROUGH 20 LUTTERWORTH WALCOTE PAILTON 3 A5 SOUTH A4304 KILWORTH Kilworth 20 River Swift Springs Lutterworth Golf Club 2 M6 Golf Club Stanford M1 Hall WELFORD COVENTRY A46 1 M6 1 19 19 A14 A14 A428 Naseby A45 RUGBY Battle!eld A45 A426 A46 18

Useful postcodes (for satnav) M45 Stanford Hall: LE17 6DH Bruntingthorpe Air Museum: LE17 5QS North KilworthWharf: LE17 6JB Road Foxton Locks: LE16 7RA Lutterworth has an enviable location in the centre of Naseby Battlefield: NN6 6DA Kilworth House Theatre: LE17 6JE country and is situated just to the west of Junction Cottesbrooke Hall: NN6 8PF 20 of the M1, and a few miles from Junction 1 of the Coton Manor: NN6 8RQ M6. Other major routes such as the A5 and A14 are Coombe Abbey Country Park: CV3 2AB nearby. Bosworth Battlefield: CV13 0AD Rail See www.goleicestershire.com for more information about tourism in Leicestershire. Lutterworth is close to two mainline stations. Rugby services the west coast line and London Euston, and Market Harborough services the east coast line and GUIDE PRODUCED BY provides a direct link to the Eurostar trains that depart from London St Pancras. Nearby stations at Narborough and Leicester connect to other stations in the Midlands. Bus There are regular services to Leicester, Rugby, SUPPORTED BY Hinckley and Market Harborough. Air There are two major airports within easy reach of Lutterworth, these being: Birmingham International Maps based on OS sources. HDC Licence No. 100623843. Lutterworth and East Midlands. Improvement Partnership accepts no liability for any error, inaccuracy or omission. Printed on FSC certified 80% recycled paper. HISTORY AND HERITAGE SHOPPING , WINING AND DINING RECREATION At the southernmost tip of Leicestershire, Lutterworth is Lutterworth is well served with recreational an attractive market town which has made its mark on facilities. Only a few minutes walk from the town world history. In the 14th century John Wycliffe centre is a very attractive cricket ground on inspired the pioneering translation of the Bible into Coventry Road. Lutterworth Cricket Club, English whilst serving as Rector of Lutterworth. More founded in 1789, is one of the oldest cricket clubs than five hundred years later, Sir Frank Whittle in the world. The Recreation Ground on the revolutionised aviation with his development of the jet opposite side of Coventry Road has car parking, an engine at his Lutterworth works. extensive playing field, and a well equipped play area for younger children. Adjacent to the The settlement was most likely established in Anglo Recreation Ground is the Bowls Club, and the Saxon times and had prospered sufficiently to be included Sports Centre which offers swimming and a wide in the Domesday Book of 1086. In 1214 King John range of fitness activities. The town also has its granted an annual charter to Nicholas de Verdun to hold Lutterworth has catered for the needs of its local own golf club on a picturesque site to the south of a market in Lutterworth for the sale of livestock and dairy population and its visitors for hundreds of years. It the town centre and welcomes visiting players. produce. This was extended in 1414 when a weekly boasts an excellent range of independent retailers There is a Country Park off Brookfield Way as well market charter was granted by King Henry V. who can provide everything from locally produced as many pleasant walks into the surrounding The imposing buildings in the town centre date mainly food to designer clothes and gifts for all occasions. countryside. from the coaching heyday between 1750 and 1850. As The town has modern supermarkets as well as family Principal Community Events long distance communications became more practical, businesses that have given good service for the town became an important generations. Carnival and Feast Week Early/mid August posting station for stage As befits a former coaching town it has plenty to Weekly Market Thursday coaches on the London to offer those in need of refreshment. There is a choice Chester turnpike and the High of pubs, including an original coaching inn, as well Monthly Farmers ’ Market 2nd Saturday Street is still dominated by the as cafes and a wide selection of restaurants. Thursday in month Greyhound hotel and other is market day in the town, and on the second former coaching inns, the Saturday morning of each month there is a Christmas Lights Switch
on Late November Denbigh and the Hind. farmers ’ market selling local produce. Lutterworth is proud to be a Fairtrade Town. If you want to spend more time locally, a good standard of accommodation is available.

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JOHN WYCLIFFE SIR FRANK WHITTLE PLACES TO SEE IN AND John Wycliffe was Rector of AND AVIATION AROUND LUTTERWORTH Lutterworth from 1374 Sir Frank Whittle is credited with the St Mary ’s Church – one of the great medieval until his death in the town invention and development of the jet churches of the Midlands. Exceptional frescoes. in 1384. He is credited as engine, one of the most important Lutterworth Museum – tells the story of the force behind the first technological breakthroughs of the Lutterworth from the past to the present, complete translation of the 20th century. Much of the including displays on John Wycliffe and Bible into English. Wycliffe developmental and testing work was Sir Frank Whittle. felt that all Christians carried out in Lutterworth in should have access to the conditions of great secrecy during the Stanford Hall – a superb Bible in their own language run up to the Second World War. William and Mary house rather than having to rely on The first successful flight of a built in the 1690s, with priests for translation and interpretation. He was an turbojet powered aircraft took place gardens and café. English theologian and an early dissident in the in May 1941 using an engine Foxton Locks Bruntingthorpe Air Roman Catholic Church. He founded the Lollard assembled in Lutterworth. A full size Museum – home to the movement, a forerunner of the Protestant replica of that aircraft, the Gloster E28/39, can be Cold War jet collection. Stanford Hall Reformation (thus he became known as ‘The seen on the roundabout at the southern entrance to Foxton Locks – situated on the Grand Union Canal Morning Star of the Reformation ’). Lutterworth. and famous for a staircase of 10 canal locks and an Forty four years after Wycliffe died, the Pope, in The area has other aviation connections, inclined plane. Learn more at the Foxton Canal a vain attempt to stamp out the clamour for including the first man to fly in England. In Museum. Boat hire and refreshments available. reform that Wycliffe ’s teachings had generated, 1897, Percy Pilcher broke the world distance Grand Union Canal at North Kilworth Wharf – ordered that his bones be exhumed and burned. record when he flew 250 metres at Stanford boat hire available. His ashes were then taken and scattered in the Hall. Sadly, he was killed there in 1899 when Naseby Battlefield – the site of one of the main River Swift and, like his ideas, were carried down his flying machine ‘The Hawk ’ crashed. There is battles of the Civil War. to the ocean and around the world. The a stone memorial where he crashed, and a Lollards became an underground movement replica of ‘The Hawk ’ can be viewed in Kilworth House Hotel and but the ideas survived and were influential the stable block of the Hall. Theatre – live theatre and in the work of Martin Luther, the music during the summer. Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, some three inspiration for the Protestant Reformation Lutterworth Town Centre in the 16th century. miles to the east of Lutterworth, is still active as an airfield and houses a Cold – pick up a Town Trail Memorials exist to Wycliffe ’s life and War Aircraft Museum [open on (from the Library) and start work, both in St Mary ’s Church Sundays]. Kilworth House Theatre exploring. and the granite obelisk that stands Other Attractions  Coton Manor, Cottesbrooke at the junction of Coventry Road Hall, Coombe Abbey Country Park, Bosworth and Bitteswell Road. Battlefield.