Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Humberstone

Humberstone.-- par., vil., and seat, with ry. sta., in co. and 2½ miles NE. of Leicester, 2630 ac., pop. 2638; P.O.; and P.O. at New Humberstone.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish, village, and seat, with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Humberstone CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Humberstone

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