Worthington, Leicestershire of the former railway to Melbourne, Derbyshire. In the parish the cycle route is called the Cloud Trail. The parish is in the hunting country of the Quorn Hunt. Worthington, Leicestershire Worthington is a village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, about north of the town of Coalville and a similar distance north-east of the market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The population of the civil parish (including Gelsmoor , Griffydam and Newbold) at the 2011 census was 1,461. The village is about from East Midlands Airport and junction 23a of the M1 motorway where it meets the A42 road.
River Eye, Leicestershire Soar. Its full journey is about 13 miles (21 km). The river is neither wide nor fast flowing, although it does flood periodically. It drifts through the gentle rolling countryside of north-east Leicestershire by fields bounded by hawthorn hedges. There is very little woodland in the area, what's there is largely man-made in the form of fox coverts. Farming in the district is largely pastoral, with the grassland given over to sheep and cows, the traditional beasts of local agriculture. Stilton and Red Leicester cheeses originally came from the village and farm dairies in the Eye basin. The name Eye