Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Burrough

Burrough, par., N. Leicestershire, 5½ miles S. of Melton Mowbray, 1565 ac., pop. 149; contains the eminence of Burrough Hill.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Burrough on the Hill CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Burrough on the Hill

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