Kingston on Soar - Nottinghamshire
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Kingston on Soar village sign on a green at the junction of The Green and Station Road, opposite the Church of St. Winifred.
Waymark Code: WMX48Z
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/25/2017
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Kingston on Soar village sign on a green at the junction of The Green and Station Road, opposite the Church of St. Winifred.
The sign is made of metal and dated 2000. It depicts in silohette st Winifred's church, the village pump house, and a bridge over the River Soar which runs close to the village. Around the base of the sign is a circular bench.
"Kingston on Soar is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It had a population of 239 at the 2001 census, increasing to 296 at the 2011 census. The parish has four centres of population: the village, Kingston Hall, New Kingston and Kingston Fields.
The River Soar does not pass through the village, but very close by to the west. At this point the Soar, flowing south to north, forms the border with Leicestershire. The Kingston Brook drains west through the village. Nearby places are Kegworth in Leicestershire and, further downstream, Ratcliffe on Soar.
There is no railway station in the village, however East Midlands Parkway opened early in 2008 at nearby Ratcliffe on Soar providing links on the Midland Main Line.
The precursor to the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College (which became the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus in the neighbouring parish of Sutton Bonington) was the Midland Dairy Institute and was located in the parish of Kingston on Soar. Stilton cheese was made along with other types at the Institute. Today, the University Farm, a 445 hectares (1,100 acres) commercial research farm, partly lies in the parish, including an associated high-technology dairy centre."
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