| Wanlip | |
|---|---|
 Rectory Road, Wanlip | |
  Wanlip Location within Leicestershire | |
| Population | 305 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SK5910 |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEICESTER |
| Postcode district | LE7 |
| Dialling code | 0116 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Wanlip is a small village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, with a population measured at 305 at the 2011 census.[1] It is a countryside village, north of Birstall, and west of Watermead Country Park and the River Soar. The A46 road runs directly past the village. Wanlip won the 2008 Leicester and Rutland Best Village Competition for villages with a population under 500.[2]
To the south of Wanlip is Wanlip Meadows, a Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust nature reserve. To the north is a Severn Trent sewage treatment plant, serving a population of more than half a million.[3] The Cedars Academy lies to the south at the edge of Birstall. To the east lies the 14 hectare Reedbed Local Nature Reserve, part of the Watermead Country Park.[4]
Wanlip is the site of a 132-metre-high wind turbine which went into operation at the end of 2013.[5]
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ Wanlip winner. Birstall Post, October 2008
- ^ Sewage gas used to power facility. BBC Leicestershire, 28 August 2005
- ^ "Local Nature Reserves". Natural England. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ "Huge Wanlip wind turbine plan gets approval", BBC, 15 June 2011, retrieved 3 July 2011