Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GARTREE

GARTREE, a hundred in Leicestershire; mainly contiguous to Northamptonshire, but including detached portions to the E of Goscote hundred. It contains thirty-nine parishes and parts of five others. Acres, 80, 071. Pop. in 1851, 17, 546; in 1861, 18, 762. Houses, 4, 173.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place: Gartree

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