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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch [ˌæʃbɪˌdələˈzuːʃ]
n
(Placename) a town in central England, in Leicestershire: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (1569) in the castle. Pop.: 10 595 (1991)
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Occasionally Names on the Land, first released during World War II and now reprinted by NYRB Classics, breaks out in rude patriotism, and once or twice in sarcasm, as when the author remarks that it was "natural" for Englishmen to laugh at American place names, residing as they did in "a country blessed with Maidenhead, Fryup, Sizergh, Great Snoring, Shitlington, and Ashby de la Zouche.
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Their route took the duo from Ashby de la Zouche to Rimini, on the east coast of Italy, via Basel in Switzerland, Lake Como in north Italy and Cortina before they arrive at their destination.
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Cameron Toll, aged four, of Ashby de la Zouche, in Leicestershire, was running a temperature before mum Helen, aged 31, brought him into Walsgrave Hospital.
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