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LUTTERWORTH

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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