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Leicestershire (Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton
Mowbray, Coalville, Lutterworth)
The city of Leicester serves as both market town and industrial
centre for the county of Leicestershire. Historically the city has
been associated with hosiery and knitwear, shoe manufacture and
other light industrial manufacture.
Leicestershire or Leicester, an inland
county, nearly in the centre of England, but a little to the E. It
is bounded on the N by Derbyshire and Notts, on the E by
Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire, on the S by Northamptonshire and
Warwickshire, on the W by Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and
Derbyshire.
Its outline is irregularly pentagonal,
and has been said to resemble the outline of a heart, recessed in
the middle of the N, and contracting to an angle at the middle of
the S. Its boundary in various parts is traced by short reaches of
the rivers Trent, Soar, Anker, Welland, and Avon, and along 18 3/4
miles of the contact with Warwickshire is formed by Watling Street.
Its greatest length, from NE by N to SW
by S, is 45 miles; its greatest breadth is about 40 miles, its
circuit is about 165 miles, and its area is 527,124 acres. Its
surface is hilly, consists chiefly of spurs or offshoots of the
backbone of England, with intervening basins or vales, and may, in a
general sense, be denominated table-land.
England
Bedfordshire,
Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire, Cheshire,
Cornwall Cumberland,
Derbyshire,
Devon Dorset,
Durham, Essex
Gloucestershire, Hampshire,
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire,
Huntingdonshire, Kent Lancashire,
Leicestershire,
Lincolnshire |
