Groby

Groby
Groby (Leicestershire)
Groby
Groby
Groby in Leicestershire

Groby ist ein Dorf im Borough Hinckley and Bosworth in der Grafschaft Leicestershire im Vereinigten Königreich mit etwa 7300 Einwohnern. Das Dorf grenzt nordwestlich an die Stadt Leicester an.

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Geographie

Groby ist reich an Granitreserven. Außerhalb des Siedlungsgebiets liegt das Groby Pool, ein im frühen Mittelalter angelegter alkalischer See.[1]

Geschichte

Der Earl of Leicester unterhielt ein Schloss in Groby, dieses wurde jedoch auf Anordnung Heinrich II. 1172 zerstört.[2]

Bildung

  • Groby College

Belege

  1. C. Sayer, N. Roberts, J. Sadler, C. David, P. M. Wade: Biodiversity Changes in a Shallow Lake Ecosystem: A Multi-Proxy Palaeolimnological Analysis. In: Journal of Biogeography. 26, Nr. 1, 1999-01, S. 97-114, S. 98.
  2. Edmund King: Mountsorrel and Its Region in King Stephen's Reign. In: The Huntington Library Quarterly. 44, Nr. 1, 1980, S. 1-10, S. 9.

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