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Hinckley is the third largest settlement in the non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughborough . Hinckley is about halfway between Leicester and Coventry and borders Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Watling Street forms part of the Hinckley/Nuneaton border. Hinckley proper was recorded as having a population of 34,202, in ...
Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in Leicestershire, England. The council is based in Hinckley, the largest town. The borough also includes the town of Earl Shilton and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The Bosworth in the borough's name refers to the small market town of Market Bosworth, near ...
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. / 51.2059; -3.1429. Hinkley Point C nuclear power station ( HPC) is a two-unit, 3,200 MWe EPR nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, England. [4] The site was one of eight announced by the British government in 2010, [5] and in November 2012 a nuclear site license was granted. [6]
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Design and construction. Architect (s) MRP. Main contractor. Stepnell. The Hinckley Hub is a municipal building on Rugby Road in the town of Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. The building is the headquarters of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council .
St Mary's Parish. St Mary's Parish Church is the oldest building in Hinckley, and is situated in central Hinckley. It is an Anglican Parish Church in the Diocese of Leicester and is designated by Historic England as a Grade II* listed building. [1] In addition, the North Chapel of the Church has been converted into a coffee bar.
Memorial Plaque (medallion) First World War memorial plaque. The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war. The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 120 mm (4.7 in) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be ...
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (born May 29, 1955) is an American who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, two months after Reagan's first inauguration. Using a revolver, Hinckley wounded Reagan, the police officer Thomas Delahanty, the Secret Service agent Tim ...
Hinckley Priory was founded as a small alien house: one that owes allegiance to a foreign mother house. In Hinckley's case, this mother house was Lyre Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lyre), in La Vieille-Lyre, Normandy, France. The exact year of foundation is unknown, but it was before 1173.