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High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England. A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [ 1 ]
Leicestershire districts and boroughs This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire, England. There are 233 civil parishes. Population figures are unavailable for some of the smallest parishes. The districts of Leicester and Oadby and Wigston (Oadby and Wigston) are entirely unparished. Coalville, Hinckley, Loughborough, Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray are ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Saratoga counties), as well as Warren, Washington, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, Fulton, Montgomery, southern Herkimer, and extreme southeastern Hamilton counties in New York state. In these fourteen counties, there are over ...
Leicestershire (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / ⓘ LEST-ər-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, and Staffordshire to the west.
The Holy Cross School served the Hells Kitchen/Times Square area; circa 2011, it had about 300 students; [23] some students originated from areas outside of New York City and outside New York State; in 2013, the archdiocese announced that the school was to close; [2] the school had the possibility of remaining open if $720,000 in pledges to the ...
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Watling Street is the county boundary between Leicestershire and Warwickshire. The Fosse Way follows the B4455 across Warwickshire, through Street Ashton, Stretton-under-Fosse , Brinklow , Bretford , Stretton-on-Dunsmore , Princethorpe and the site of a Roman town near Chesterton , [ 14 ] until it joins the A429 near the boundary with ...
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. Hugo Meynell of Quorn, Master of the Quorn Hunt 1753–1800, is known as the father of fox hunting.