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Muston (pronounced ''Musson'') is a village in north Leicestershire, 18.6 miles east of Nottingham, 12.5 miles north of Melton Mowbray and five miles west of Grantham on the A52. It lies on the Leicestershire/Lincolnshire county border, two miles east of Bottesford, of which it forms part of the civil parish. The River Devon (pronounced ''Deevon'') (flows ) through the village. ==Facilities== The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is in the Belvoir Group of parishes, based in Bottesford, and under the Diocese of Leicester.〔The other churches in the group are Barkestone-le-Vale, St Peter and St Paul; St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford; All Saints' Church, Harby; St Helen's Church, Plungar; St Peter's Church, Redmile : St Guthlac's Church, Stathern; St Michael & All Angels' Church, Hose; and St Remigius's Church, Long Clawson.〕 (Muston Meadows ) is a nearby 41-hectare grassland nature reserve featuring 33 types of grass and over 100 other species of flowering plant. The reserve is notable for its colony of over 10,000 Green-winged Orchids.〔Leicestershire's nature reserves. (Retrieved 10 December 2014. )〕 The 14th-century cross on the village green is a Grade II * listed structure. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Name: VILLAGE CROSS List entry Number: 1075068 ) 〕 The Viking Way, a long-distance footpath between Humberside and Rutland, passes half a mile to the east of the village. The village lies on the Bingham–Bottesford–Grantham bus route, which runs about once an hour in the daytime on weekdays. The local pub, the ''(Muston Gap )'', occupies a Grade II listed building dating back to the 18th century.〔British Listed Buildings. (Retrieved 10 December 2014. )〕 It stands on the A52, a hundred metres from the Nottingham–Grantham railway line, where the nearest station is Bottesford (3 km). Muston also has a café (the Old Forge Tea Rooms), bed and breakfast facilities (Glebe House, a Grade II listed building,〔Glebe House website. (Retrieved 11 December 2014. )〕 and Chantry Cottage),〔Chantry Cottage site. (Retrieved 11 December 2014. )〕 a children's play area,〔Fields in Trust. (Retrieved 11 December 2014. )〕 and a village hall (Old School Muston).〔RCC (Leicestershire & Rutland) (Retrieved 11 December 2014. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muston, Leicestershire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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