Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ashby St Ledgers

Ashby St Ledgers, par., S. Northamptonshire, 4 miles N. of Daventry, 2050 ac., pop. 261; P.O. In the vicinity is Ashby Manor House, in a small room of which the Gunpowder Plot was concocted by Robert Catesby and his fellow-conspirators.


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

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ashby St Ledgers CP/AP       Northamptonshire AncC
Place: Ashby St Ledgers

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