History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire, and the small county of Rutland :
together with the adjacent towns of Grantham & Stamford(1849).
COMPRISING
GENERAL SURVEYS OF BOTH COUNTIES,
AND SEPARATE HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, & TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS
OF ALL THEIR HUNDREDS, TOWNS, PARISHES, TOWNSHIPS, CHAPELRIES, VILLAGES, HAMLETS, MANORS, LIBERTIES, AND UNIONS;
SHOWING
Their Extent and Population ; their Agricultural and Mineral Productions ;
Trade and Commerce ; Markets and Fairs ; Charities and Public Institutions ; Churches and Chapels ; the Value, and the Patrons and Incumbents, of the Benefices ; the Lords of the Manors and Owners of the Soil and Tithes ; the Addresses of the Inhabitants, the Public Conveyances ; the
Seats of Nobility and Gentry ;
MAGISTRATES AND PUBLIC OFFICERS;
And a Variety of other agricultural, statistical, & biographical
information. In One Volume, with a Map of the Counties.
BY WILLIAM WHITE.
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The Victoria history of the county of Leicester.
and
The Victoria history of the county of Rutland
in Two Volumes.
Edited by William Page(1907).
CONTENTS
Natural History,Geology ,Botany,Zoology,
Early Man, Romano-British Leicestershire,
Anglo-Saxon Remains,Ancient Earthworks,
The Leicestershire Survey, Ecclesiastical History And Much More.
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Memorials of old Leicestershire(1911).
EDITED BY
ALICE DRYDEN
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS.
CONTENTS.
Historic Leicestershire
The Prehistoric Roads of Leicestershire
Prehistoric Leicestershire
Leicestershire under Roman Influence
Leicestershire in Anglo-Saxon Times
The Greys of Groby and Bradgate
The Ancient Houses
Leicestershire Churches in the Time of Charles I.
Archdeaconry of Leicester
The Beaumonts of Grace-Dieu
Vestiges of Paganism in Leicestershire
Henry Hastings, Lord Loughborough, and the Great Civil War.
A Description of the Tombs and Monuments having Sculptured Effigies up to the close of the Seventeenth Century : With a Digression upon the Swithland Local Headstones of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries .
Belvoir Castle
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Leicestershire
by
G. N. PINGRIFF, B.A., B.Sc.
With Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations.
CONTENTS.
County and Shire, General Characteristics. Position and Natural Conditions, Size. Shape. Boundaries; Surface and General Features; Watersheds and Rivers; Reservoirs and Water Supply; Geology; Natural History;Climate and Rainfall; People Early Inhabitants, Place-names, Population; Agriculture; Industries; Mines and Quarries;
History; Antiquities; Architecture (a) Ecclesiastical;
Architecture (b] Military and Domestic;
Communications (a) Roads; Communications (b) Canals and Railways ;
Administration and Divisions ;
Roll of Honour and The Chief Towns and Villages of Leicestershire.
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The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the year 1619.
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Bygone Leicestershire.
(1892)
WILLIAM ANDREWS .
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Mediaeval Leicester(1920)
BY
Charles James Billson,MA.
CONTENTS.
The Streets; The Suburbs; The Inns; The Prisons; The Town Halls; The Twelve Demolished Churches and Chapels; The Six Bridges; The Fairs and Markets; The Occupations; The Population; Some Townspeople; The Tragedy of the Blue Boar; The Destruction of Mediaeval Leicester , And Authorities, (i) General List .
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The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century
BY
JAMES THOMPSON.
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The Visitation of the county of Rutland in the year 1618-19.
Taken by William Camden, Clarenceaux king of arms(1870).
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