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| Name | LEICESTER ENGLAND / Centre of the City / City Market |
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| Video Discription | Visitando a cidade de LEICESTER, INGLATERRA (2019), a 10a maior cidade do país e uma das mais antigas / Visiting LEICESTER, one of the Oldest cities in England. Leicester history goes back at least two millennia.The native Iron Age settlement encountered by the Romans at the site seems to have developed in the 2nd or 1st centuries BC. Little is known about this settlement or the condition of the River Soar at this time, although roundhouses from this era have been excavated and seem to have clustered along roughly 8 hectares (20 acres) of the east bank of the Soar above its confluence with the Trent. This area of the Soar was split into two channels: a main stream to the east and a narrower channel on the west, with a presumably marshy island between. The settlement seems to have controlled a ford across the larger channel. The later Roman name was a latinate form of the Brittonic word for "ramparts" (cf. Gaelic rath and the nearby villages of Ratby and Ratcliffe), suggesting the site was an oppidum. During the C14th the earls of Leicester and Lancaster enhanced the prestige of the town. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and of Leicester founded a hospital for the poor and infirm in the area to the south of the castle now known as The Newarke (the "new work"). Henry's son, the great Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster and of Leicester, who was made first Duke of Lancaster, enlarged and enhanced his father's foundation, and built the collegiate Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of The Newarke. This church (a little of which survives in the basement of the Hawthorn Building of De Montfort University) was destroyed during the reign of King Edward VI. It became an important pilgrimage site because it housed a thorn said to be from the Crown of Thorns, given to the Duke by the King of France. The church (described by Leland in the C16th as "not large but exceeding fair") also became, effectively, a Lancastrian mausoleum. Duke Henry's daughter Blanche of Lancaster married John of Gaunt and their son Henry Bolingbroke became King Henry IV when he deposed King Richard II. The Church of the Annunciation was the burial place of Duke Henry, who had earlier had his father re-interred here. Leicester was a Parliamentarian (colloquially called Roundhead) stronghold during the English Civil War. In 1645, King Charles I of England and Prince Rupert decided to attack the (then) town to draw the New Model Army away from the Royalist (colloquially called Cavaliers) headquarters of Oxford. Royalist guns were set up on Raw Dykes and, after an unsatisfactory response to a demand for surrender, the assault began at 3pm on 30 May 1645 by a Royalist battery opposite the Newarke. The town - which only had approximately 2,000 defenders opposed to the Royalist Army of approximately 10,000 combatants - was sacked on 31 May 1645, and hundreds of people were killed by Rupert's cavalry. The construction of the Grand Union Canal in the 1790s linked Leicester to London and Birmingham. The first railway station in Leicester opened in 1832, in the form of The Leicester and Swannington Railway which provided a supply of coal to the town from nearby collieries.[38][39] The Midland Counties Railway (running from Derby to Rugby) linked the town to the national network by 1840. A direct link to London St Pancras Station was established by the Midland Railway in the 1860s. These developments encouraged and accompanied a process of industrialisation which intensified throughout the reign of Queen Victoria SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA |
| Category | Travel & Events |
| Tags | LEICESTER | MIDLANDS | ENGLAND | UK CITIES | ENGLAND CITIES | TOURISM IN ENGLAND | VISITING ENGLAND | LEICESTER CENTRE | East Midlands | Leicestershire | TURISMO NA INGLATERRA | LEICESTER ATTRACTIONS | RIVER SOAR | BRITAIN | ROMANS IN BRITAIN | LADY JANE | ENGLAND CIVIL WAR | INDUSTRIAL ERA |
