Bonne anniversaire to Michael Nyman, Chaka Khan and Sir Mo Farah, and 485 years ago the Dissolution of the Monasteries came to a quiet end in the west of Essex
The Duchy of Lancaster actually started in Leicestershire - Henry III confiscated the lands of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, after his defeat at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and gifted them to his son Edmund. The oldest piece of land continuously owned by the Duchy is the Reeve Piece at Desford, a village west of Leicester.
The Duchy of Lancaster actually started in Leicestershire - Henry III confiscated the lands of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, after his defeat at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and gifted them to his son Edmund. The oldest piece of land continuously owned by the Duchy is the Reeve Piece at Desford, a village west of Leicester.