Heather,_Leicestershire
Heather, Leicestershire
Village in Leicestershire, England
Heather (/ˈhiːðər/ HEE-dhər) is a village west of Ibstock in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 949 at the 2001 census reducing to 920 at the 2011 census.[2] In the Domesday Book of 1086, its name is recorded as Hadre, meaning "the heathland".[3]
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There was an Iron Age settlement immediately north west of the village. As part of an open cast coal mining application, this was excavated in 1990. It identified a settlement from the late 2nd century BC through to early second century A.D.[4]