Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WALTON

WALTON, a hamlet in Kimcote and Knaptoft parishes, Leicester; 4 miles NE by E of Lutterworth. Acres, 1,240. Pop., about 500. Framework-knitting is carried on, and there is a Methodist chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kimcote CP/AP       Knaptoft Tn/CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Walton

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