LUTTERWORTH
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 143
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LUTTERWORTH
, a See also:market See also:town in the Harborough See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Leicestershire, See also:England; 90 M
.
N.N.W. from See also:London by the See also:Great Central railway
.
Pop
.
(1901) 1734
.
It lies in a pleasant undulating See also:country on the small See also:river See also:Swift, an affluent of the See also:Avon
.
The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary is a See also:fine See also:building,
mainly Decorated and Perpendicular, wherein are preserved See also:relics of See also:John Wycliffe, who was See also:rector here from 1374 until his See also:death in 1384
.
The See also:exhumation and burning of his See also:body in 1428, when the ashes were See also:cast into the Swift, gave rise to the saying that their See also:distribution by the river to the ocean resembled that of Wycliffe's doctrines over the See also:world
.
Wycliffe is further commemorated by a See also:modern See also:obelisk in the town
.
See also:Trade is principally agricultural
.
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