A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
KNAPTOFT, a township in Lutterworth district, and a parish partly also in Market-Harborough district, Leicester. The township lies near the Grand Union canal, the Market Harborough and Rugby railway, and the boundary with Northampton, 2 miles WNW of Theddingworth r. station, and 7 ENE of Lutterworth. Real property, £1, 808. Pop., 54. Houses, 7.—The parish contains also the hamlet of Walton, and the chapelries of Shearsby and Mowsley; the last of which has a postoffice under Rugby. Acres, 4, 940. Real property, £6, 733. Pop., 841. Houses, 204. A mineral spring, of some medicinal repute, but not much resorted to, is at an inn in Shearsby township. Framework knitting is carried on. There are traces of an ancient camp. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelries of Shearsby and Mowsley, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £700.* Patron, John Hood, Esq. The parish church is in ruin; and the church of Shearsby, which has a tower, is in use. Bishop Watson was rector.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Market Harborough RegD/PLU Leicestershire AncC |
| Place: | Knaptoft |
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