| LC control no. | n 50056602 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Leicestershire (England) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | England--Leicestershire |
| Variant(s) | Leicestershire, Eng. Leicestershire Leicester (England : County) County of Leicestershire (England) |
| See also | Rutland (England) East Midlands (England) |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | Leicester (England) |
| Found in | Hoskins, W.G. Essays in Leicestershire history, 1950. BL hdg. (Leicestershire (England)) Webster's new geog. dict., 1984: p. 659 (Leicestershire or Leicester; administrative county, cen. England, incl. former counties of Leicester and Rutland) Government Office for the East Midlands WWW site, Mar. 23, 2001 (our geographical remit ... the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland and the cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham) Foreign names information bulletin, July 31, 2001 (former name: Leicestershire--ADMD, 52°40ʹN 01°10ʹW (UK26); new name: Leicestershire [short form], County of--ADM1, 52°40ʹN 01°00ʹW (UKH5)) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm2; 52°40ʹ00ʺN 001°00ʹ00ʺW) Wikipedia, viewed 13 April 2017 (Leicestershire; abbreviation Leics.; landlocked county in the English Midlands; takes its name from the City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire; bordered by Rutland to the east, a unitary authority which, between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1997 was an administrative district of Leicestershire after its county status was abolished) |
| Geographic area code | e-uk-en |
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