Leicestershire

Leicestershire, English midland county, bounded by Nottingham, Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Warwick, and Derby shires; is an undulating upland watered by the Soar, and mostly under pasture. Leicester cattle and sheep are noted, and its Stilton cheeses. There are coal deposits and granite and slate quarries in the N. The chief towns are Leicester, the county town, Loughborough, and Hinckley.

Population (circa 1900) given as 374,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)