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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Leicester. You may be able to find further references to Leicester in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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AUGUSTINE FRIARS | Imperial | |
BLACK-FRIARS | an extra-parochial tract | Imperial |
Castle View | liberty | Bartholomew |
CASTLE-VIEW | a liberty | Imperial |
LEICESTER | a town, six parishes, two sub-districts, and a district | Imperial |
Leicester Abbey | parish | Bartholomew |
LEICESTER-ABBEY | an extra-parochial tract | Imperial |
LEICESTER AND HITCHIN RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
LEICESTER AND SWANNINGTON RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
NEWARK | a liberty | Imperial |
Newarke | parish | Bartholomew |
White Friars | parish | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Leicester.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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FIELDS (South) | a liberty | Imperial |
Leicester Frith | parish | Bartholomew |
LEICESTER-FRITH, or SHERMANS-GROUNDS | an extra-parochial tract | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Leicester within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Freaks Ground | 0 | 2 |
Belgrave | 0 | 2 |
Knighton | 0 | 2 |
Gilroes | 0 | 2 |
New Parks | 0 | 3 |
Evington | 0 | 2 |
Beaumont Leys | 1 | 2 |
Humberstone | 0 | 2 |
Leicester Frith | 0 | 3 |
Braunstone | 0 | 3 |
Birstall | 0 | 2 |
Aylestone | 0 | 2 |
Thurmaston | 0 | 2 |
Kirby Frith | 0 | 2 |
Lubbesthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Oadby | 0 | 2 |
Glenfield | 0 | 4 |
Anstey | 0 | 4 |
Thurnby | 0 | 2 |
Hamilton | 0 | 2 |