Searching for "NEW LEAKE"

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    Place name County Entry Source
    BOSTON Lincolnshire Leake, parts of the parishes of Fishtoft, Frieston, and Leverton, and the East fen allotment of Boston; the subdistrict of Sibsey, containing the parish of Sibsey, the parochial townships of Carrington, West Ville, Thornton-le-Fen, Langrick Ville, and Frith Ville, the extra-parochial tracts of Silt Pits and Rowland's Marsh. and the West and Wildmore fen allotments of Boston, Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Frieston, and Leverton; and the subdistricts of Swineshead, containing the parishes of Swineshead, Bicker, and Wigtoft, parts of the parishes of Kirton and Billinghay, the extra-parochial tracts of North-Forty-Foot-Bank, Drainage Marsh, Forty-FootBridge Imperial
    GREENWICH Kent new world. James I. resided a considerable time here; and his queen, Anne of Demark, improved the palace, walled in the park, and laid the foundation of " the House of Delight. ' ' Their daughter, the Princess Mary, was baptized here with great pomp in 1606. Charles I., previous to the civil war, often resided here; and his queen, Henrietta Maria, completed Queen Anne's ' ' House of Delight. " Charles II., after the Restoration, occasionally resided here, ordered the demolition of the decaying palace, and commenced the building of a new one on a most splendid scale, but was got able to erect Imperial
    Leake Lincolnshire Leake , vil. with ry. sta., 7 miles NE. of Boston; P.O., T.O.; and New Leake , vil., 3 miles NE. of Old Leake Bartholomew
    LEAKE Lincolnshire LEAKE , a parish in Boston district, Lincoln; on the East Lincoln railway, the Hobhole drain, and the coast, 7 miles NE of Boston. It contains Old Leake r. station and New Imperial
    Leake, New Lincolnshire Leake, New , vil., Leake par., Lincolnshire, 10 miles NE. of Boston; P.O. Bartholomew
    LEAKE (NEW) Lincolnshire LEAKE (NEW) , a village in Leake parish, Lincoln; in the East Fen, near Fodderdyke, ¼ of a mile W of Eastville Imperial
    LINCOLN Lincolnshire
    Nottinghamshire
    New Basford, Brinsley, Hucknall-Torkard, Papplewick, Mansfield-St. John, Mansfield-Woodhouse, Skegby, Stapleford, Sutton-in-Ashfield, and Cossall. The deanery of Nottingham-second contains the rectories of Colwick, Epperstone, Gedling, Gonalstone, Lambley, and Swinton; the vicarages of Arnold, Attenborough, Burton-Joyce, Lowdham, and Gunthorpe; and the p. curacies of Bramcote, Bulcote, Carrington, Hoveringham, and Thurgarton. The deanery of Nottingham-third contains the livings in Nottingham borough; the vicarages of Lenton and Radford; and the p. curacies of Hyson-Green, Kemberley, and Radford-Christchurch. The deanery of Bingham-first contains the rectories of BroughtonSulney, Costock, Hickling, Keyworth, Langar, Rempstone, and Staunton Imperial
    LONDON London
    London
    LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is Imperial
    LOUGHBOROUGH Leicestershire Leake, containing the parishes of East Leake, West Leake, Costock, Rempstone, Wysall, Thorpe-Bochart, Stanfordupon-Soar, Normanton-upon-Soar, Sutton-BonningtonSt. Michael, Sutton-Bonnington-St. Ann, Willoughbyon-the-Wolds, Wimeswold, and Prestwold,-all, except the last two, electorally in Notts. Acres of the district, 45,550. Poor rates in 1863, £11,910. Pop. in 1851, 25,368; in 1861,24,210. Houses, 5,494. Marriages in 1863,133; births, 814,-of which 75 were illegitimate; deaths, 539,-of which 225 were at ages under 5 years, and 13 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years Imperial
    LOWESTOFT Suffolk Leake, who figured in the capture of Gibraltar, Sir John Ashby, Admiral Uther, Admiral Mighell, and Lord-Chief-Justice Holt were natives; Baron Alderson and Dr. Whewell were frequent residents; and William Whiston, Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, John Tanner, the editor of his brother's "Notitia Monastica, ' Robert Potter, the translator of Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, T. Scrope, who became bishop of Dromore, and Hudson, who is epitaphed as "your painful minister, ''were incumbents. The town, till about 1830, continued to be a mere fishing village; but it acquired great impetus, first from the formation of an inner Imperial
    New Leake Lincolnshire New Leake , vil., Leake par., Lincolnshire, near Eastville sta. and 10 miles NE. of Boston; P.O. Bartholomew
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