Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ULLESTHORPE

ULLESTHORPE, a hamlet in Claybrooke parish, Leicester; on the Rugby and Leicester railway, 3¼ miles NW of Lutterworth. It has a post-office under Lutterworth, a r. station with telegraph, and two dissenting chapels; and it carries on malting and framework knitting. Real property, £3,639. Pop., 600. Houses, 141.


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

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place: Ullesthorpe

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