Leicestershire

Temple Hall Leicestershire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

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TEMPLE-HALL, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2 ½ miles (W. by S.) from Market-Bosworth ; containing, with Wellesborough, 76 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Nailstone Leicestershire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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NAILSTONE, a village and a township in Market-Bosworth district, and a parish partly also in Ashby-de-la-Zouch district, Leicester. The village stands on a branch of the river Anker, 3 miles NNE of Market-Bosworth, and 3 WSW of Bagworth r. station; and has a post-office under Hinckley. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Real property, £4,051. Pop., 302. Houses, 71.—The parish contains also the township of Barton-in-the-Beans, and the chapelry of Normanton-le-Heath. Acres, 3,806. Real property, £8,443. Pop., 639. Houses, 146.

Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire Principal Inhabitants Universal British Directory 1791

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The inhabitants are as follows:

Gentlemen

Ashpinshaw Edward, Esq. (F.)

Chapman Thomas, Esq. (F.)

Hallam Henry, Esq. (F.)

Joyce Henry, Esq.

Hickingbottom Mr. John

Lee Thomas, Esq. (F.)

Hallaton Leicestershire Universal British Directory 1791

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Hallaton is ninety-four miles from London; has a market on Thursday, and fairs on Ascension-day, May 23, June 13; and a charity-school. This place is noted for its poverty in the midst of a rich soil.

The Fosse-way leads from hence through the north-west part of this county; but, when it enters Nottinghamshire, it inclines north-east, through the vale of Belvoir, or, as it is commonly called, of Bever, to Newark. All this long track is through a rich and fertile country, having north-eastward the noble river Trent, for twenty miles together, often in view.

Source: The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture 1791. Vol. 5.

Hinckley Leicestershire Principal Inhabitants Universal British Directory 1791

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The following is a list of the principal inhabitants:

Clergy

Gallaway John Cole, Vicar, A.M.

Physic

Bloxam Matthew, Surgeon

Chessher [sic] and Wilson, Surgeons

Cotterell Samuel, Surgeon

Tapscott James, M.D.

Market Bosworth Leicestershire Universal British Directory 1791

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Market Bosworth is seated on a pretty high hill, in a country fertile in corn and grass. It is noted for a bloody battle fought here between Richard III and Henry earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII wherein King Richard lost his life and crown. This battle put an end to the long and bloody contention between the two royal houses of York and Lancaster; which, as fame tells us, had cost the lives of eleven princes, twenty-three earls and dukes, three thousand noblemen, knights, and gentlemen, and two hundred thousand of the common people. At the town they shew several pieces of swords, heads of lances, barbs of arrows, pieces of pole-axes, and such like instruments of death, said to be found by the country people in the several grounds near the place of battle, as they had occasion to dig, or trench, or plough, the ground. The town is near three miles from the place where the battle was fought. It is thirteen miles south-west of Leicester, and one hundred and six north-north-west of London.

Market Harborough Leicestershire Principal Inhabitants Universal British Directory 1791

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The following is a list of the principal inhabitants:

Gentry

Allen Mrs. widow

Bolton Richard

Coleman Henry, Esq. (F.)

French Mrs. widow

Hands John, (F.)

Maior William, Esq. (F.)

Melton Mowbray Leicestershire Universal British Directory 1791

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Melton Mowbray is one hundred and eight miles from London, in a fertile soil, with a market on Tuesday, the most considerable for cattle of any in this part of the island. It is almost encompassed with a little river called the Eye, over which it has two fine bridges; and has a large handsome church, damaged by lightning, May 5, 1770, with a free-school. Burton Lazars (once belonging to the knights of Jerusalem) is a hamlet to this parish, as are Sysonby, Freeby, and Welby. The pastures all about are exceeding good, and the appearance pleasing. Fairs the first Tuesday after Jan. 17, Whitsun-Tuesday, and August 21. – The following is a list of the principal inhabitants:

Mountsorrel Leicestershire Universal British Directory 1791

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This place should properly be called Mount-Soar-Hill, from the river Soar on the west side of it, over which it has a bridge, and a hill in the middle of the town. It is part in Burrow parish, and part in Rodely parish; and has two chapels formerly, though now it has but one. In the reign of Henry III it has a castle, which was besieged and demolished by the country people, who had suffered much by the excursions of the garrison. – The market is on Monday; fair, July 10.

Easthorpe Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

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Easthorpe, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Grantham, hundred of Framland, N. division of the county of Leicester; containing 417 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.