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A Walk Through Leicestershire

Histories of Leicestershire: Reflections on Landscapes

  • A Walk through Leicestershire
  • A Deep Dive into Ridge & Furrow
  • Some Landscape History Resources
  • Landscape Character, Landscape, and Character: The Great Ejection of 1662 in Leicestershire & Rutland
    • WEIRD People
    • Chalk & Cheese
    • Statistical testing: The Chi Squared Test
      • Testing, testing: Underwood’s Pensioners and Delinquents
      • Testing, testing: The Great Ejection in Dorset
      • Testing, testing: The Great Ejection in Bucks
      • Testing, testing: The Great Ejection in Leics
    • Conclusions
    • Bibliography, links and other resources
  • Parish Boundaries: spotting places of significance in early medieval landscapes
    • Roman Roads & Parish Boundaries
    • Local Peculiars: Kilby – Wistow
    • Local Peculiars: Offa’s Dyke at Pant y Abad, Denbighshire
  • The Gartree Road: The Road that Wasn’t There
    • The Problem
    • The Walk
    • First Thoughts
      • First Hypothesis
    • Research & Learning
      • Resources
      • The Evidence
    • Second Thoughts & Second Hypothesis
    • Other Ideas
    • Further work ….
  • The Via Devana: Leicester to Rykneild Street
    • Ratledge’s Route
    • Liddle & Hartley’s Note
    • Google Map
    • City of Leicester
    • Glenfield – Ratby
    • Ratby – Bagworth & Thornton
    • Bagworth & Thornton – Ibstock
    • Ibstock – Ravenstone with Snibston
    • Ravenstone with Snibston – Normanton le Heath
    • Normanton-le-Heath – Packington
    • Packington – Ashby-de-la-Zouch
    • Ashby-de-la-Zouch – Ashby Woulds
    • Ashby Woulds – Overseal (Derbyshire)
    • Overseal – Linton
    • Linton – Cauldwell
    • Cauldwell – Drakelow
    • The Trent
    • Data, Resources and Bibliography

Ratby – Bagworth & Thornton

There is a noticeable change of direction of the parish boundary (from north-north-west to east-north-east) where the track of the New Road (note the field alignment to the east-south-east) crosses the boundary, south west of Great Wood:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/101592600

Surveyed 1885

Map 3 Ratby – Bagworth and ThorntonDownload
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