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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1629, and their daughter Elizabeth with her husband Leicester Devereux in 1647. 22 The latter, as Viscount …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is now one of the main cross-country routes of England (Leicester-Norwich); it was turnpiked from Peterborough to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… reign of Lady Jane Grey, Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester, seems to have made Wisbech his headquarters, while …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… former is part of the important cross-country route from Leicester to Norwich and carries much traffic, particularly …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has … in Wistow are those running from Kibworth Harcourt (on the Leicester- Market Harborough road) in the east to Kilby in the west, and from Wigston Magna (on the Leicester- Northampton road) and Newton Harcourt in the north …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Oakham; containing 30 … in the hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 1 mile (E. by S.) from Atherstone; containing, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Collier (fl. 156594), sold 30 blankets to the earl of Leicester, then lessee of Witney manor. 33 From the 1620s and … from as far as Canterbury, Colchester, Norwich, and Leicester, collected in London and carted to Witney once a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have given the lease to Robert Dudley (d. 1588), earl of Leicester; 7 on his death he was succeeded as lessee by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Methodists Primitive Methodist preachers from the Leicester circuit are said to have evangelized around Witney …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Watling-street, which separates it from the county of Leicester. It comprises by measurement 3407 acres, chiefly … intersected by the roads from Rugby to Hinckley, and from Leicester to Coventry; also by the river Anker, which takes …