Place:Nether Seal, Derbyshire, England

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NameNether Seal
Alt namesNethersealsource: Wikipedia, current usage
TypeHamlet
Coordinates52.715°N 1.577°W
Located inDerbyshire, England     (1889 - )
Also located inLeicestershire, England     ( - 1889)
See alsoWest Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Over Seal and Nether Seal, Leicestershire, Englandcivil parish of which it was part 1866-1889
Seal, Leicestershire, Englandancient parish in which it was a township prior to 1866
source: Family History Library Catalog
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Nether Seal (or 'Netherseale') is the southernmost village of the English county of Derbyshire. The village is less than 2 miles from the neighbouring county of Leicestershire, and is close to the A444 and the important M42 motorway, on the banks of the River Mease.

Nether Seal was in Leicestershire until 1889. For an explanation of the change of counties, see the Wikipedia article named Overseal and the WeRelate article on Over Seal.

History

St Peter's Church, Nether Seal is the final resting place of Sir Nigel Gresley (1727-1787) and the village is the birthplace of the historian, Eben William Robertson (1815-1874). It has a couple of 17th century almshouses, but The Tudor Hall, once the home of the Gresley family, is now long gone having been demolished in 1933.

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