Sharnford
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Sharnford is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England. The parish has a population of about 1,000, measured at the 2011 census as 985. The village is about four mile
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High Cross, Leicestershire
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High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England. A naturally strategic high point, High
Sharnford
…tenth-century will of Wulfric Spot, earl of Mercia, and probably named after a "scearn" or muddy ford over the River Soar. It lies immediately north of High Cross, near the Roman station at Venonis (mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary) at the intersection of Roman Watling Street and the Fosse Way. Sharnford was…
High Cross today
Eighteenth century engraving of High Cross by William Stukely published in John Nichols History of Leicestershire 1807