Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOSCOTE (East)

GOSCOTE (East), a hundred in Leicester; separated by Framland hundred from Lincoln, and extending south-south-eastward from Notts to Rutland. It contains Alexton parish, thirty-three other parishes, and parts of five others. Acres, 82, 250. Pop. in 1851, 17, 206; in 1861, 16, 239. Houses, 3, 619.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place names: EAST GOSCOTE     |     GOSCOTE     |     GOSCOTE EAST
Place: East Goscote

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