Bradgate Park
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"Exploring this superbly presented park and its different terrains."
Overview
Bradgate Park is an 800-year-old medieval deer park containing 830 acres of wild and rugged landscape with dramatic rocky outcrops and gnarled old oak trees, many of which are well over 500 years old. It was also the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. The Visitor Centre is in the heart of the Park, and tells the story of the Bradgate Estate.
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Deer Barn Café - Smart cafe with plenty of outdoor seating.
Visitor centre - Opened by David Attenborough in 2016.
Old John Tower Walk - Take a tour round this 18th-century monument.
Swithland Wood - 170 acres of preserved woodland around an old slate quarry.
Old oak trees - Some are over 500 years old.
Location
Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, LEICESTER, Leicestershire, LE6 0HE
About the area
Leicestershire is divided between the large country estates of its eastern side and the industrial towns of the East Midlands to its west. Coal mining was an important part of the county’s industrial development in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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