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Wanlip is a small village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, with 68 properties and a population of about 150. 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.〔(Wanlip winner ). ''Birstall Post'', October 2008〕 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.〔(Sewage gas used to power facility ). BBC Leicestershire, 28 August 2005〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Local Nature Reserves )〕 Wanlip is the site of a 132-metre-high wind turbine which will be operational by the end of 2013.〔"(Huge Wanlip wind turbine plan gets approval )", BBC, 15 June 2011, retrieved 3 July 2011〕 ==History== An Iron Age settlement was unearthed just to the north of Wanlip〔Beamish, M: (A Middle Iron Age site at Wanlip, Leicestershire ). ''Trans. Leicestershire Archaeol. Hist. Soc.'' 1998〕 and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered during the building of Longslade School in 1958,〔Liddle P: (An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Wanlip, Leicestershire ). ''Trans. Leicestershire Archaeol. Hist. Soc.'' 1979〕 One of the earliest mentions of Wanlip is in the Domesday book, where it is listed as Anelepe, among the lands given to Earl Aubrey〔''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.652 ISBN 0-14-143994-7〕 by the King. The land described includes a mill. The Earl's son Aubrey de Vere II went on to become Lord Chancellor. The surnames of the three families who have owned the manor over eight centuries are: * Walsh 1230-1526 * Aston 1526-1626 * Palmer 1626-today William Wilberforce, the 19th century MP and leading abolitionist, lived for some years at Wanlip Hall. There are four listed buildings in Wanlip: a brick ice house, the church of Our Lady and St. Nicholas, Manor Farm and Hall Farm.〔http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/listed_buildings/search?location_type=settlement&listed-building_settlement=Wanlip〕 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「Wanlip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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