Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Appleby

Appleby, par., vil., and seat, on confines of Derbyshire and Leicestershire, 6 miles SW. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch ry. sta., 2020 ac., pop. 757; P.O. It is sometimes called Appleby Magna, and contains the hamlet of Appleby Parva.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish, village, and seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Appleby CP/AP       Appleby Magna CP       Appleby Magna North CP       Appleby Magna South CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place names: APPLEBY     |     APPLEBY MAGNA
Place: Appleby Magna

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