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Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, England, Großbritannien



 


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Breedon on the Hill is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in North West Leicestershire, England. The parish adjoins the Derbyshire county boundary and the village is only about 2 miles (3 km) south of the Derbyshire town of Melbourne. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population (including Isley and Wilson) of 958 people in 404 households. The parish includes the hamlets of Tonge 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village and Wilson 1.3 miles (2 km) north of the village on the county boundary. The population at the 2011 census (including Isley cum Langley and Langley Priory) was 1,029 in 450 households.

History:

Excavation of The Bulwarks in 1946 identified occupation between about the 1st century BC and about 1st century AD.

The toponym is derived from the Celtic word bre for hill and the Old English word dun for hill. Hence in its current form the name combines three forms of the word hill. Briudun, an early spelling, has been traced from AD 731.

Medieval Hagiography Manuscripts record four saints buried in Breedon on the Hill. They are Friduricus, donor of the Mercian Royal Monastery built in Breedon during the seventh century, King Eardwulf of Northumbria, and relatively unknown Anglo-Saxon Saints Beonna of Breedon and Cotta of Breedon.

Breedon has a circular stone-built village lock-up. It is 18th-century[citation needed] and similar to the one in the nearby Worthington. It was used for detaining local drunks or lost cattle.

Breedon Hall is an historic building which was the ancestoral home of the Curzon family

In 1874, a branch of the Midland Railway was built through the eastern part of the parish and Tonge and Breedon railway station was built at Tonge. In 1980 British Railways closed the line and later the track was dismantled. The trackbed through the parish is now part of National Cycle Route 6.

Ort : Geographische Breite: 52.8021172, Geographische Länge: -1.4003921


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