Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SNIBSTON

SNIBSTON, A hamlet in Packington parish, Leicester; near the Swannington railway, 4½ miles SE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Pop., 595. Houses, 110. The manor belongs to Lady Edith Hastings. Coal is extensively worked. There is a very old chapel of ease.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "A hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place: Snibston

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