Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COPT-OAKS

COPT-OAKS, a chapelry in Markfield, Whitwick, Charley, Bardon, Newtown-Linford, and Ulverscroft parishes, Leicester; in Charnwood forest, adjacent to the Midland railway, 5 miles SW of Loughborough. Post town, Loughborough. Pop., 393. Houses, 81. The chapelry was constituted in 1863. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Peterborough. Patrons, the Lords of Forest Manors.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place: Copt Oak

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