Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Buckminster

Buckminster, par., township, and vil., N. Leicestershire, on border of co., 9½ miles NE. of Melton Mowbray -- par., 3053 ac., pop. 454; township, pop. 253; P.O.; contains B. Park, seat of the Earl of Dysart.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish, township, and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Buckminster CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Buckminster

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