Appleby Parva

Appleby Parva

Appleby Parva, or Little Appleby, part of the parish of Appleby Magna in Leicestershire, is a hamlet about a mile south of Appleby church at the crossroads of the highways from Ashby de la Zouch to Tamworth and from Atherstone to Burton upon Trent.

The village was also calculated to be the centre of population of Great 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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