Willesley, Leicestershire

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Willesley is a hamlet in Leicestershire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Willesley within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Willesley in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Willesley, par., Derbyshire, 1½ mile SW. of Ashby de la Zouch, 910 ac., pop. 57; contains Willesley Park, seat of the Earl of Loudoun.

Willesley in the Domesday Book

A village in Walecros hundred, in the county of Derbyshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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