Leiscester
Details
- Names
Leicester
Leiscester
Ratae
Ratae Coritanorum
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- On the River Soar; site of Iron Age settlement; established as 'Civitas' by Romans; legendary home of King Lear; Cathedral see of Bishop of Leicester until the 9th century when it became a Danish borough; one of the Five Boroughs of Danelaw; site of first Parliament called in 1265 by Simon de Montfort and early center of dissidents; became important industrial center in the 14th century; visited by Richard III before his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485; center for hosiery and shoe industries since the 18th century.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Domesday Book (1985); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Romano-British Placenames [online] (1999); Times Atlas of World History (1993); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers;
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