Hinckley

Hinckley is a marketplace town in southwest Leicestershire, England. It is administered through Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the second one largest town within the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Loughborough. Hinckley is located about on the midpoint among the towns of Leicester and Coventry and is close to to the bigger town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Hinckley is a conventional centre of the hosiery industry.

The first framework knitting device become delivered right here by Joseph Iliffe within the 17th century and through the 19th century Hinckley turned into answerable for a massive proportion of Britain's hosiery manufacturing. Since the Second World War the hosiery industry has regularly contracted in size although several fabric firms stay in the place. Hinckley & District Museum, which is housed in a range of former framework knitters' cottages, tells the story of the hosiery enterprise and contains a few examples of framework knitting machines.

Hinckley additionally has a records of engineering and is home to the Triumph Motorcycle agency. Hinckley Bus are the primary operator of bus offerings within the metropolis centre running offerings to Leicester, Burbage, Earl Shilton, Nuneaton and Barwell from their depot. Arriva at the beginning operated some of services to villages across the metropolis till 2008 once they have been offered to Centrebus Holdings, a joint project between Arriva and Centrebus.