Nations & regions focus: East Midlands

The East Midlands has an identity going back more than 1,000 years as the ‘five boroughs of the Danelaw’: Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Stamford. The Danish influence lives on in the place names, particularly in the ‘thorpe’, ‘kirk’ and ‘by’ suffixes, which are very common. 

Watling Street, now the A5, formed the western bo.....Sign Up or Login to read full article