Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Shenton

Shenton, township and vil. with ry. sta., Market Bosworth par., Leicestershire, 2 miles S. of Market Bosworth, pop. 210; P.O.; near the vil. is Shenton Hall, seat.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place: Shenton

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