Goscote was a wapentake in the county of Leicestershire,

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; consisting of the north and north-west of the county. It was recorded in the

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, but as the wapentakes evolved to form hundreds, was split into

East Goscote Hundred East Goscote Hundred was a hundred of Leicestershire, that arose from the division of the ancient Goscote hundred (also known as a Wapentake) into two. It covered the eastern part of today's Charnwood district, along with the northern part of ...

and West Goscote Hundred in 1346.John Curtis, ''A Topographical History of the County of Leicester'' (1831)

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