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The crest of the county council, and the emblem of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicester City FC and Leicestershire Scouts is the red fox. Leicestershire is considered to be the birthplace of fox hunting as it is known today.
Leicestershire has a long history of livestock farming which continues today. Robert Bakewell (1725–1795) of Dishley, near Loughborough, was a revolutionary in the field of selective breeding. Bakewell's Leicester Longwool sheep was much prized by farmers across the British Empire and is today a heritage breed admired. [11]
Leicester is close to the eastern end of the National Forest. [11] Leicester has a long history extending into ancient times. It was the site of the Roman town of Ratae Corieltauvorum, which was later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and then by the Vikings who made it one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Leicester, the county town of Leicestershire, in England. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Military history of Leicestershire (6 C, 3 P) Monasteries in Leicestershire (28 P) P. Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire (historic) (11 P) S.
This became The History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest. [2] [4] [5] Potter attempted a reissue of the History of Leicestershire by John Nichols, but his effort proved abortive, and, though much was written, only the Physical Geography and Geology of Leicestershire was printed (in 1866).
This engraving was used as a frontispiece to Burton's Description of Leicester Shire (1622). Portrait attributed to William Segar , Society of Antiquaries of London William Burton (24 August 1575 – 6 April 1645) was an English antiquarian, best known as the author of the Description of Leicester Shire (1622), the county's first published ...
Leicester's first police force had its station in the Guildhall from 1836. [8] The Corporation moved to the new Leicester Town Hall in 1876. Apart from the police station, it was later used as a school. However, the building was becoming increasingly dilapidated, and by the 1920s there were plans to demolish the building.