Portrait of Leicestershire |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Making of a Boom Town | 28 |
The Hub of the Wheel | 48 |
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Abbey ancient Ashby Ashby Castle Beaumont beautiful became Belvoir Bosworth Bradgate building built Burley-on-the-Hill called canal Castle centre century coal Coleorton county's death died Donington Duke Earl Earl Shilton England famous fields fox-hunting George Grey ground Hall Hallaton Hastings hawthorn Henry Hill Hinckley horses hosiery hounds hundred hunting industry Ingarsby Jewry Wall John king knitters known Lady Lane Langton Leicester Leicester's Leicestershire lived London Lord Loughborough Market Harborough Marquis married mazes medieval Melton Mowbray Midland modern Montfort monument Northamptonshire Oakham once originally Park Parva perhaps population quarries Quenby Quorn Quorn Hunt Quorndon railway rector red brick Reservoir river River Soar road Robert Roman Rutland Shilton shire Shirley Soar soon spire sport stands stocking frames stone survive Swithland Swithland slate thousand Tower town turf maze vicar village church Villiers Watling Street whilst wife Wolds women
References to this book
British Sources of Information: A Subject Guide and Bibliography P. Jackson No preview available - 2003 |
British Sources of Information: A Subject Guide and Bibliography P. Jackson No preview available - 2003 |