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| | GENUKI - Desford Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | "DESFORD, a large village, with many framework knitters, is pleasantly situated on a bold acclivity, about a mile south of the station, to which it gives its name, on the Leicester and Swannington Railway, 5 miles E. by N. of market Bosworth, and 8 miles W. by S. of Leicester. |
 | | Desford parish, which is in Sparkenhoe Hundred, Market Bosworth Union, and that County Court District, comprises the township and the hamlet of Barrons Park, and in 1871 contained 911 persons, living in 217 houses, on 3830 acres of land. |
 | | Desford was part of the Market Bosworth Union. |
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