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Located along Scraptoft Lane east of Leicester. It was originally built in Normanton near Rutland Water in 1926 but was removed brick by brick and re-built in 1931. It is now a public house.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Scraptoft Post Office and Stores is at the junction of Main Street with Scaptoft Rise and Hamilton Lane. Scraptoft is a village on the eastern edge of Leicester, fast being gobbled up by suburban sprawl. See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22069 for information and history of the village.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking east along Scraptoft Lane.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>15th century churchyard preaching cross by All Saints' church, restored in 1964
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Dist:0.3km<br/>13th - 15th century church, restored 1867
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Dist:0.3km<br/>For history see: http://www.scraptoft.leicester.anglican.org/history.html
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Dist:0.3km<br/>All Saints Church stands on top of a hill that on a clear day you can see across the other side of the City and beyond
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This stately hall is now up for sale after being used by the Leicester University.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Ancestral home of the Wigley family, this delightful Queen Anne country house of 1723 was bought by Leicester Education Committee in 1954 and evolved as an educational campus with Leicester Polytechnic and latterly De Montfort University. The campus closed in 2003 and much of the parkland developed as retirement housing, though the hall remains forlorn and vandalised.
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking west across the Leicester skyline.
©Mat Fascione
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across fields towards Thurnby.
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