Lount is a small village near Ashby-De-La-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, — Zouch being pronounced "Zoosh" — often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest. It is twinned with Pithiviers in north-central France....

 in north-west Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

, England

England

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. It has a population of 50 (approx). It has no local amenities apart from a public house

Public house

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. The village straddles the B587 road and is situated near to the A42 road

A42 road

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The village was traditionally linked to the Staunton Harold Hall estate, and made up of 17th–19th century cottages. Lount was the scene in 1760, of a death, by murder, of Earl Ferrer's steward

Stewardship

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, who had been shot, by Laurence, The Earl Ferrers, at the neighbouring village of Staunton Harold

Staunton Harold

Staunton Harold is a civil parish in North West Leicestershire about north of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish is on the county boundary with Derbyshire and about south of Derby....

. The steward returned to his house in Lount, where he died. The last 25 years has seen several modern houses erected there.

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