Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Sheepshed

Sheepshed, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Leicestershire, 4 miles W. of Loughborough, 5280 ac., pop. 4437; P.O., T.O. Framework knitting, glove making, needle making, and granite working are carried on.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shepshed CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Shepshed

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