Nailstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, situated to the west of Leicester and 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Market Bosworth.

[3] The village has a primary school: Dove Bank Primary School[4] the catchment area for which also includes the neighbouring village of Bagworth.

[7] The village also has historical links to the Jacobite rising of 1745 when, after his retreat from Derby, Charles Edward Stuart "Bonnie Prince Charlie" visited his friends the Knowles family in Nailstone.

A great elm tree was planted in the village to commemorate this event.

[10] The colliery was closed in 1991 and the land was purchased to provide a logistics centre and country park[11] Nailstone became a conservation village in 2015.