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MOUNT SORREL

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 942 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUNT See also:SORREL , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Loughborough (See also:Mid) See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Leicestershire, on the See also:river Soar, 7 M. N. of See also:Leicester. Pop. (1901), 2417. The Sileby station on the Midland See also:main See also:line lies 12 m. E. The position is beautiful, a steep See also:hill, once crowned by a See also:castle, rising above the well-wooded valley. At See also:BARROW-UPON-SOAR, 22 M. N. (pop. 2409; Barrow and Quorn railway station), See also:lime is worked extensively. The See also:village of QTORNDON or QUORN, 12 M.

N.W., is the See also:

head-quarters of the well-known Quorn See also:hunt. Quorndon is an See also:urban See also:district (pop. 2173).

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