Copt Oak

It is located in the North West Leicestershire district near the large village of Markfield and the rural hamlets of Abbots Oak, Charley, Ulverscroft, and Nanpantan.

The area is centred on a section of the B591 and Whitwick Road, consisting of the large Copt Oak pub-restaurant, a church, and a cluster of residential dwellings and farms.

Copt Oak is the highest point of the M1, and the site of BBC Radio Leicester's only transmitter on 104.9 MHz FM (V.H.F.

), and also the main transmitter of Greatest Hits Radio East Midlands (formerly Gem before October 2023) on 106.0FM.

COPT OAK was the meeting place in the centre of the forest – Marked by a great tree (The Copest Oak) from the Anglo=Saxon word 'cop' meaning cap or top.