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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DONISTHORPE, a hamlet in Seal, Measham, and Church-Gresley parishes, and a chapelry in Seal, Measham, Church-Gresley, Stretton-in-le-Field, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch parishes, Leicester and Derby. The hamlet lies on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal, 1½ mile S by W of Moira r. station, and 4 SW of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Pop., 344. The chapelry was constituted in 1838; and its post-town is Stretton-in-le-Field, under Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Rated property, £4, 350. Pop., 2, 132. Houses, 397. The property. is much subdivided. A number of the inhabitants are colliers. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £145.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern.
(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: | Derbyshire AncC Leicestershire AncC |
| Place: | Donisthorpe |
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