County
Leicestershire
20 places in the corpus · 1,047 dated entries · 1242–1483.
Places are grouped by historic county. The county of each place is taken from the printed indexes (which qualify a place as “co. Norfolk”) and the gazetteer, then normalised to the traditional shire.
Shaded: the historic county of Leicestershire. Source: Historic County Borders Project (county-borders.co.uk), traditional counties. A proxy for the medieval shire, not a medieval reconstruction.
About these overlays & sources
These layers are real published datasets, not derived from the rolls, clipped to this county's neighbourhood for context. Each is external research data, reprojected but otherwise unmodified:
- Gough Map roads (c.1355–1360) — Oksanen, E. & Brookes, S. (2024) The Routes and Roads of the Gough Map: GIS Database. ADS. doi:10.5284/1124312.
- Navigable rivers (courses with direct and indirect evidence of medieval traffic) — Oksanen, E. (2019) Inland Navigation in England and Wales before 1348. ADS. doi:10.5284/1057497.
- Bridges to c.1250 — Brookes, S., Rye, E. & Oksanen, E. (2019) Bridges of Medieval England to c.1250. ADS. doi:10.5284/1053676. CC BY 4.0.
- Monastic houses (dissolution-era) — after MonasteryQuest, stainedglassattitudes.com.
- Terrain relief: Esri World Shaded Relief. The clean default base is CARTO (label-free), © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Activity over time
Where the court came from and went next (outside the county, click a bar)
From the seal's movement network: the places it was at immediately before arriving in this county (arrived from) and immediately after leaving it (departed to). Click a bar to open that place.
Places (20 in the county; the map shows those we could geolocate)
- Leicester 1,190
- La Sauve Majeure 70
- Loughborough 34
- Garendon 20
- Blaye 15
- Whitwick 12
- Wigston 10
- Kirkby 9
- Wymondham 9
- Sibstone 8
- Burton Lazars 4
- Lutterworth 4
- Mowsley 3
- Beaumanor 2
- Kegworth 2
- Launde 2
- Segrave 2
- Aylestone 1
- Bagworth 1
- Melton Mowbray 1