Goscote was a
wapentake in the county of
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
,
England; consisting of the north and north-west of the county. It was recorded in the
Domesday Book, but as the wapentakes evolved to form
hundreds, was split into
East Goscote Hundred and
West Goscote Hundred in 1346.
[John Curtis, ''A Topographical History of the County of Leicester'' (1831)]
References
Ancient subdivisions of Leicestershire
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