Costock
| Costock | |
|---|---|
 St Giles' Church | |
  Costock Location within Nottinghamshire | |
| Population | 621 (2011 Census) |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LOUGHBOROUGH |
| Postcode district | LE12 |
| Dialling code | 01509 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | https://costockparishcouncil.org.uk/ |
Costock is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England.[1][2] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 621.[3] It was estimated at 664 in 1998.[4] Although in Nottinghamshire, Costock's closest town is Loughborough in Leicestershire.
Amenities
Costock has a Church of England primary school. St Giles's Church, built in 1350, stands back from the main street of the village. The Anglican Community of the Holy Cross has had a small convent at Highfields, Cotham, since 2011.
Transport
Costock lies next to the main A60, Nottingham to Loughborough road.
The No. 9 bus service between Nottingham and Loughborough operates at least once an hour, seven days a week. It is operated by Kinchbus.[5] East Midlands Airport lies 10 miles away.
18th-century visitor
The German traveller K. P. Moritz stayed the night while on a walking tour of England in 1782: "There were three inns adjacent to each other in Costock, which, to judge by their exteriors, were dens of the most abject poverty. At the one where I stayed only the landlady was at home.... During the evening I felt a kind of fever, slept disturbed that night and lay in bed very long the next morning until my landlady woke me up, saying she was getting worried on my account. I decided to travel on beyond Leicester by coach."[6]
Neighbouring villages
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 129 Nottingham & Loughborough (Melton Mowbray), Ordnance Survey, 2014, ISBN 9780319231623
- ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^ City Population. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ Timetable.
- ^ Carl Philip Moritz: Journeys of a German in England in 1782, translated and edited by Reginald Nettel (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1965), p. 177.
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