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--do.-- (1790) Supplementary Volume to the Leicestershire Views, containing a Series of Excursions to the Villages and Places of Note in that County; John Nichols (1795–1815). History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester. London: Nichols & Son. 4 vols. (Nichols included most of Throsby's work in his History of the county of Leicester).
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.
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Leicester (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LES-tər) [7] is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a population of 373,399 in 2022. [4]
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.
The Victoria County History for Leicestershire suggests that Grandmesnil founded Groby Castle, [1] as does the English Heritage Archive. [3] However, medieval historian R. Allen Brown suggests a foundation date in the third quarter of the 12th century by the Earl of Leicester. [4]
Quenby Hall is a Jacobean house in parkland near the villages of Cold Newton and Hungarton, Leicestershire, England. [1] It is described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most important early-seventeenth century house in the county of Leicestershire". [2] The Hall is Grade I listed, and the park and gardens Grade II, by English Heritage. [3]
Market Bosworth (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ər θ / BOZ-wərth) is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, [1] increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. [2] It is most famously near to the site of the decisive final battle of the Wars of the Roses. [3]