Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SIXHILLS, or Segshill

SIXHILLS, or Segshill, a place in Dalby-on-the-Wolds parish, Leicester; near the Fosse way, 7 miles WNW of Melton-Mowbray. Many barrows and high earthworks are here; and the adjacent part of the Fosse way is high-ridged and paved.


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

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Leicestershire AncC
Place names: SEGSHILL     |     SIXHILLS     |     SIXHILLS OR SEGSHILL
Place: Six Hills

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