Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Goscote like this:

GOSCOTE (West), a hundred in Leicester; bounded by Derby, Notts, East Goscote, and Sparkenhoe. It contains Ashby-de-la-Zouch parish, twenty-four other parishes, and parts of five others. Acres, 84, 825. Pop. in 1851, 50, 338; in 1861, 51, 427. Houses, 11, 262.

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Travel writing

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