Download or read book Little Known Leicestershire and Rutland written by Bob Trubshaw and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leicestershire and Rutland written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-03-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland counties possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late nineteenth century include notable work by Ernest Gimson, Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also possesses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.
Download or read book Secret Rutland written by Daniel J. Codd and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the secret history of Rutland through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Download or read book County Folklore Leicestershire and Rutland written by Charles James Billson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the successful county folklore series - this book is packed full of superstitions, customs and old wives tales. A great book for anybody in or around Leicestershire and Rutland, or with an interest in the rich folklore of the United Kingdom. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Leicestershire and Rutland Unusual and Quirky written by Andrew Beardmore and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leicestershire and Rutland, home to English football¿s 2016 Premier League Champions ¿ and also home to some of England¿s best kept secrets: beautiful countryside, pretty, quintessentially English villages, and a rich and diverse history. Not so secret, though, is the fact that the already historic city of Leicester has been firmly put on the international map recently, with the discovery of the remains of Richard III and his high-profile reinterment in Leicester Cathedral. And of course, Richard III, the Wars of the Roses and Leicester¿s pivotal connection with the English Civil War are amongst many topics covered in Leicestershire and Rutland: Unusual & Quirky in depth, from the Stone Age to present day. However, lurking not far beneath the surface of both counties is a host of oddities and peculiarities that turn the apparently staid and conventional into something much more intriguing. Therefore even the Conventional Leicestershire & Rutland section sees its County History interspersed with the book¿s idiosyncratic ¿Quirk Alerts¿; like anecdotes covering Roman latrine management, how Robin-a-Tiptoe Hill became so-named, and the meaning of bizarre Leicestershire terms such as Gongoozlers and Yawny Box! Naturally, though, it is the Quirky Leicestershire & Rutland section where things turn very strange, and where a seemingly random almanac of 55 Leicestershire and Rutland places have their quirkiest facts laid bare: like which village has a cow-milking organist, which had a beerswilling fox, another a wig-detecting phantom, and yet another a parson who tied 58 bulldogs to 58 apple trees to prevent scrumping! Or what about which Leicestershire village was hit by a meteorite, which one saw doves dictate the build of a church, and which one still fights annually over a hare pie! Alternatively, find out which Rutland village had a fourteenth-century rector involved in serious organised crime, which one is twinned with Paris, and which one is home to a truly mind-blowing historical revelation. If you think you know Leicestershire and Rutland, read this fascinating and profusely illustrated book and think again¿
Download or read book Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner written by John Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland written by Rob Fray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The County Avifaunas are a growing series of books, each of which gives details of the status and range of every species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarity records. Each has introductory sections describing the county's ecology and habitats, climate, ornithological history and conservation record. This new avifauna covers Leicestershire and neighbouring Rutland, an area with a particularly strong birding tradition - the Leicestershire & Rutland Ornithological Society is one of the largest county bird clubs in Britain. The region holds some of England's most important inland reservoirs, including the largest, Rutland Water. This massive lake holds some 10,000 wintering birds of a variety of species each year, and has an impressive rarity list as well as some of England's few breeding Ospreys. The county also has important woodlands, gull roosts and river habitats. Rutland Water is the home of the British Birdwatching Fair, the most important trade fair in the birding calendar.
Download or read book Strange and Secret Peoples Fairies and Victorian Consciousness written by Stern College for Women Carole G. Silver Professor of English and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-12-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
Download or read book The Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland written by Roy Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historic Country Houses of Leicestershire and Rutland written by Leonard Martin Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Local Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.
Download or read book Masterworks written by Nigel Pennick and published by Heart of Albion. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Leicestershire and Rutland Place names written by Jill Bourne and published by Heart of Albion Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leicestershire and Rutland Place names written by Anthony Poulton-Smith and published by Sutton. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland place-names examines their origins and meanings. It includes not only towns, villages and hamlets, but also rivers, streams, hills, fields and woods, as well as streets, buildings and public houses. A comprehensive description of the origin and evolution of each name is given, bringing to life the history of the place in a new and remarkably revealing way. Few are aware of the background of the names that are part of our everyday language, and Anthony Poulton-Smith uncovers this aspect of Leicestershire and Rutland's rich history to great effect.
Download or read book The Flora of Leicestershire and Rutland written by Michael Jeeves and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leicestershire and Rutland written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering Leicestershire and Rutland, this text is part of the Buildings of England reference book series. They are aimed at architectural scholars and the lay enthusiast alike.
Download or read book History Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire and the Small County of Rutland written by William White and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Leicestershire, and the Small County of Rutland: Together With the Adjacent Towns of Grantham Stamford The Author, in presenting to an indulgent Public this first essay towards a popular History, Topography, and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland, has to tender his grateful acknowledgments to many literary and official Gentlemen of both counties, as well as to most of the resident Clergy, for the valuable and interesting communications with which they have furnished him, in answer to his multifarious inquiries; and also to a very numerous list of Subscribers, who have honoured him with their patronage, to such a liberal extent, that their orders are nearly equal to the number of the large edition now printed. The prompt and extensive patronage which the Author has received in these and many other counties, shews clearly that Works of this description are highly interesting and useful, not only to the Merchant, Manufacturer, Farmer, and Tradesman, but also to the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Professional Men. When carefully and faithfully compiled, they are invaluable as books of local reference. Authenticity being the grand requisite of topography, all possible care has been taken to avoid errors in the following pages; every Parish, and almost every House in both Counties, has been visited, and the information either collected or verified on the spot; it is therefore hoped that the volume will be found as free from inaccuracies as is compatible with the vast body of information, and the great variety of subjects compressed within its closely printed pages. Among many other works which have been consulted in its compilation are The Description of Leicestershire, in folio, published by Wm. Burton, Esq., of Lindley, in 1622;The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, in four folio volumes, by John Nichols, F.S.A.; Select Views of Leicestershire, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations, in two quarto volumes, published by John Throsby, in 1780 and 1790; and A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, in one octavo volume, published in 1831, by the Rev. J.Curtis, then head master of the Free Grammar School at Ashbyde-la-Zouch. The History of the East Hundred, by Thos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
