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Name. The name of Leicester comes from Old English. It is first recorded in Latinised form in the early ninth century as Legorensis civitatis and in Old English itself in an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 924 as Ligera ceastre (and, in various spellings, frequently thereafter). In the Domesday Book of 1086, it is recorded as Ledecestre.
Essex House was a house that fronted the Strand in London. Originally called Leicester House, it was built around 1575 for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and was renamed Essex House after being inherited by his stepson, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, after Leicester's death in 1588. The poet Philip Sidney lived in Leicester House ...
Leicester House se convirtió en la casa de un museo nacional de curiosidades llamado el Holophusikon y fue demolida en 1971-1972. En el siglo XIX , Leicester Square ya era conocida como una avenida de entretenimiento, con varias diversiones peculiares como el Globo de Wyld, el cual fue construido para la gran exhibición y fue sede de un mapa a escala gigante de la Tierra.
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster. Leinster House ( Irish: Teach Laighean) is the seat of the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland. Originally, it was the ducal palace of the Dukes of Leinster. Since 1922, it has been a complex of buildings of which the former ducal palace is the core, which house Oireachtas Éireann, its members and staff.
Winstanley House in Leicestershire previously called Braunstone Hall, is a building of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. [1] It was built in 1775 by Clement Winstanley and remained in this family for the next 150 years. It was then bought in 1925 by the Leicester City Council.
Leicester Square è una piazza situata nel centro di Londra, nel cuore di Soho . Si tratta di una famosa isola pedonale situata ad ovest di Charing Cross Road, a nord di Trafalgar Square e ad est di Piccadilly Circus . Per arrivare con la metropolitana si può usare la Northern line o la Piccadilly line . È famosa fra l'altro per le première ...
88001043 [1] Added to NRHP. July 28, 1988. The Leicester Meeting House is a historic church building at the junction of United States Route 7 and the Leicester-Whiting Road in the center of Leicester, Vermont. Built in 1829, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Federal period church architecture executed in brick.
