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| Heather | |
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 The Crown Inn, in the centre of Heather | |
  Heather Location within Leicestershire | |
| Population | 949 [1] |
| OS grid reference | SK391107 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | COALVILLE |
| Postcode district | LE67 |
| Dialling code | 01530 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Heather (/ˈhiːðər/ HEE-dhər) is a village west of Ibstock in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 949 at the 2001 census reducing to 920 at the 2011 census.[2] In the Domesday Book of 1086, its name is recorded as Hadre, meaning "the heathland".[3]
There was an Iron Age settlement immediately north west of the village. As part of an open cast coal mining application, this was excavated in 1990. It identified a settlement from the late 2nd century BC through to early second century A.D.[4]
- ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics: 2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Heather CP". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ Watts, Victor et al., (2004) The Cambridge Dictionary of Place Names, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- ^ The Iron Age settlement at Heather Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Thorpe, R, Sharman, J & Clay, P (1994). Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, LXVIII, p.30