- Appleby Parva
Appleby Parva, or Little Appleby, part of the parish of
Appleby Magna inLeicestershire , is a hamlet about a mile south of Appleby church at the crossroads of the highways fromAshby de la Zouch toTamworth and fromAtherstone toBurton upon Trent .The village was also calculated to be the
centre of population ofGreat Britain in 2000, according to research by Professor Daniel Dorling of Leeds University. [cite web |url=http://wwwnotes2.leeds.ac.uk/cuttings.nsf/ca19a58d66951b21802570980070beb6/6e35c8489160f26880256b5a004ef41d?OpenDocument |title=News Item: |accessdate=2007-11-25 |format=HTML |work=University of Leeds ] [cite web |url=http://www.applebymagna.org.uk/population_centre.htm |title=Population Centre |accessdate=2007-11-25 |format=HTML |work=Appleby Magna & Appleby Parva ]History
Appleby Magna is recorded as a separate manor and being in the county of
Derbyshire in Domesday"Domesday Book: A Complete Translation". London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.1306] .The late medieval settlement pattern has been largely obliterated by eighteenth-century alterations to the highway. Its most prominent historical site is the grammar school built in 1697 by Sir John Moore, lord mayor of London. It was designed and constructed by William Wilson [Richard Dunmore, "This Noble Foundation. A History of the Sir John Moore School at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire" (1992)] .
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