Oakham

Oakham, county town of Rutland, 17 m. E. of Leicester, in the centre of a fine wheat country; has an old church, a grammar-school founded in 1581, and a castle mostly in ruins; manufactures of boots and hosiery, and carries on malting.

Population (circa 1900) given as 4,000.

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