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Encyclopedia Britannica



HINCKLEY

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 476 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HINCKLEY , a market town in the Bosworth parliamentary division of Leicestershire, England, 142 m. S.W. from Leicester on the
Nuneaton
 -Leicester branch of the London & North-Western railway, and near the
Ashby
 -de-la-
Zouch
  canal. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 11,304. The town is well situated on a considerable
eminence
 . Among the
principal
  buildings are the
church
  of St Mary, a Decorated and Perpendicular structure, with lofty tower and spire; the Roman Catholic
academy
  named St Peter's Priory, and a grammar school. The ditch of a castle erected by Hugh de Grentismenil in the time of William Rufus is still to be traced. Hinckley is the centre of a stocking-weaving
district
 , and its speciality is circular
hose
 . It also possesses a boot-making industry, brick and tile works, and lime works. There are
mineral
  springs in the neighbourhood.


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