The East Midlands from AD 1000

acres agricultural arable became Black Death borough Boston building built canal Castle cent centre Chesterfield church coal coalfield collieries considerable countryside county towns county's decline Defoe Derby Derbyshire District Domesday early East Midlands East Retford economic eighteenth century enclosure engineering England Erewash valley estates farming fenland fens Forest Foss Dyke fourteenth century framework knitting Gainsborough gentry Grantham Grimsby growth Hinckley hosiery houses important improved increased industry Kesteven labour land Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lindsey London lords Loughborough Louth major manor Mansfield manufacturing Market Harborough market towns medieval Melton Mowbray mining Newark nineteenth century Nottingham Nottinghamshire parish particularly Peak Peak District period Pevsner population production prosperity railway region result river road rural Rutland settlement seventeenth century shire significant sixteenth century Skegness Sleaford Stamford survived Thirsk thirteenth century tion tons Torksey town's trade Trent urban VCH Leics villages Wigston Magna Wollaton wool