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Gartree Hundred

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172: 80:, now known as the Gartree Road. This was the open-air meeting place from the tenth century to the eighteenth century where jurors, drawn from the local villages, handed out justice and administered taxes each month. It may have been the site of a prehistoric burial mound, and the site of a previous Anglo Saxon moot place. In 1750, this was moved to the Bull's Head at 64:
The original meeting place of the hundred, which was used for local administration, justice and taxation, was the Gartree Bush, or Gartree (possibly from the Scandinavian word
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It was in the south-east of the county, roughly corresponding to today's
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A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5
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Gartree (Leicestershire)
hundred
Leicestershire
Harborough district
Market Harborough
HMP Gartree
electoral division
Leicestershire
Kibworth
Gaulby
Via Devana
Tur Langton
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978-0-670-91903-1
A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5
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