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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beaumont Leys like this:
BEAUMONT-LEYS, an extra-parochial tract in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicestershire; near the Leicester and Swannington railway, 2 miles N of Leicester. Acres, 1,210. Real property, £1,955. Pop., 31. Houses, 6.
Beaumont Leys is now part of LEICESTER Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how LEICESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Beaumont Leys itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Beaumont Leys, in Leicester and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10608
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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