Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWARK

NEWARK, a liberty in the district and county of Leicester; within Leicester city. Pop. in 1851, 1, 178; in 1861, 1, 341. Houses, 281. See Leicester.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a liberty"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Leicester the Newarke CP/ParLib       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Leicester

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