Hinckley
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ N , 1 ° 23 ′ W
Hinckley is an English city in southwest Leicestershire with 43,246 inhabitants (2001). Along with the constituency Bosworth Hinckley is the County ( Borough ) Hinckley and Bosworth with 100,000 inhabitants. The place is known by the motorcycle manufacturer Triumph and home of the sports car manufacturer Sin Cars UK Ltd. .
William Shakespeare mentions Hinckley in his drama Henry IV.
geography
Hinckley is crossed by the Ashby Canal . It is 160 km from London, 50 km from Birmingham and 20 km from Coventry .
traffic
The A5 road London - Bangor leads south past the town . The M69 motorway runs around 4 km south-east and joins the M1 motorway to London near Leicester . The A47 road runs past Hinckley and leads to the North Sea coast.
There is a rail link via Leicester to Birmingham and London .
The nearest airports are East Midlands , Coventry and Birmingham .
Town twinning
Hinckley has had a town twinning with the German Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1972 . Another city partnership exists with the French city of Le Grand-Quevilly in Normandy.
Personalities
The poet John Cleveland (1613–1658) lived here from 1621 to 1627, the pianist and music teacher Leonard Heaton (1889–1963) was born here.
