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  • '''Rothley''' is a village and parish in [[Leicestershire]], situated around half a mile west of the [[River Soar]] and five miles no Rothley is one of Leicestershire's most affluent areas based on number of houses worth more than £1 million
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  • ...s south-west of [[Nottingham]]. It is also very close to the border with [[Leicestershire]], marked by route of the [[River Trent]] which passes close to the south. ...l.<ref name=DerbyLife/> There is also a Stone Age tumulus at [[Lockington, Leicestershire|Lockington]], an Iron Age settlement between Shardlow/Wilne and the river,
    13 KB (2,008 words) - 11:59, 20 October 2017
  • ...n the [[Kesteven]] part of [[Lincolnshire]], adjacent to the border with [[Leicestershire]]. It lies on the A52 road, six miles west of [[Grantham]]. Its population ...SK8537/sedgebrook/ Open Domesday: Sedgebrook]</ref> Robert Malet and three mills were noted. Sechebroc means "Brook where sedge grows", from OE secg "sedge"
    6 KB (904 words) - 10:51, 20 July 2018
  • ...|Ingleby]], [[Crich]] and Kidsley. This land was then given to Morcar, the King's chief minister, and he was unusually given rights that were normally reserv ...diers were reputedly buried in Weston Churchyard in 1644 after a battle at King's Mill when Sir John Gell took 200 royalist prisoners.<ref name="aston">A. B.
    18 KB (2,994 words) - 10:06, 7 December 2018
  • ...isher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-960908-6|page=350|author=David Mills}}</ref> and the area east of the city, also settled by Saxons, was called " ...ook|title=The Village atlas: the growth of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, 1834–1904|year=1990|publisher=Alderman|isbn=978-1-85540-026-9|author=Bar
    25 KB (3,709 words) - 13:10, 13 April 2019
  • ...[[Harston, Leicestershire|Harston]] road and the boundary with Harston in Leicestershire. Until 1930 this was south of the road. By 1918 the Great Northern branch h ...hn Caborn. In 1994 the bells were again re-hung in metal frames by Hayward Mills Associates.
    10 KB (1,554 words) - 10:28, 7 January 2020
  • |county=Leicestershire '''Tur Langton''' is a small village in [[Leicestershire]].
    6 KB (936 words) - 17:46, 26 July 2021
  • ...Old English personal name.<ref>{{placenames|p=218}}</ref><ref>{{Placenames Mills|p=337}}</ref><ref>{{Ekwall|p=458}}</ref> *the King's thanes;
    8 KB (1,220 words) - 19:54, 25 September 2021
  • ...[[Nottinghamshire]], in the [[Vale of Belvoir]], close to the border of [[Leicestershire]]. The [[River Smite]] is to the west and the [[River Whipling]] to the ea ...cates the Vale of Belvoir.<ref>{{placenames|p=219}}</ref><ref>{{Placenames Mills|p=375}}</ref> The place appears as ''Watone'' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1
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