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Leicester Forest, East and West, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Leicester Forest, East and West, formerly two extra-parochial tracts, now two parishes in Blaby union, Leicestershire, from 2½ . to 5 miles S of Leicester. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Leicester. Area of Leicester Forest East, 620 acres; of Leicester Forest West, 309, population, 96 and 45 respectively.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
HundredSparkenhoe 
Poor Law unionBlaby 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Leicester Forest, East and West from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: