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Sileby lies astride the main railway line between Leicester and Nottingham.

Sileby lies astride the main railway line between Leicester and Nottingham. In the 20th century it became a dormitory settlement for these two citi

Castle Donington is a small market town in north-west Leicestershire.

Castle Donington is a small market town in north-west Leicestershire.

This rural village in Leicestershire lies eight miles north-east of Melton Mowbray, on the county border with Lincolnshire.

Seagrave is one of eight parishes in the north Leicestershire wolds whose boundaries form a 'hub-and-spoke' pattern around a former area of common

The Basingstoke Triumphal Gateway

By the 1860s, railway signal boxes had become one of the most conspicuous structures of the rapidly changing landscape of Victorian London.

The volume of surviving probate material increases after 1701, but the value of the documents to the local and the social historian declines as gra

The Mompesson tomb in the south chapel of Codford St Mary's Church, moved there in the 19th century.

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