Lockington, Leicestershire
Lockington is a village in the Leicestershire parish of Lockington-Hemington. The village is close to the Derbyshire border. The population at the 2011 census was included in the civil parish of Lockington-Hemington.
Although there is not a rail station in the village, East Midlands Parkway opened nearby in 2008 at Ratcliffe-on-Soar which provides links to the Midland Main Line.
Lockington Hall in the village was the home of a branch of the Curzon family. In 1904 Henry Curzon of Lockington Hall was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
In 1994 a hoard of Bronze Age items was discovered locally. The hoard consisted of the shards of two Beaker style pots, a copper based alloy dagger and two embossed gold-sheet armlets. These 4,000-year-old finds are now in the British Museum., poet, was born here in 1722.
