Framland
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Framland was a hundred in north-east Leicestershire, England, roughly corresponding to today's borough of Melton. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as one of Leicestershire's four wapentakes.[1]
The name remains in use as a deanery of the Diocese of Leicester in the Church of England.
The original meeting place of the hundred was at Great Framland.[2]
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- ↑ Open Domesday Online: Wapentake of Framland, accessed November 2019.
- ↑ Sam Turner, Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw Template:Webarchive