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{{Short description|Former district of Leicestershire, England}}
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'''Framland''' was a [[hundred (division)|hundred]] in north-east [[Leicestershire]], England, roughly corresponding to today's [[Melton (borough)|borough of Melton]]. It was recorded in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' as one of Leicestershire's four [[wapentake]]s.<ref>[https://opendomesday.org/hundred/framland/ Open Domesday Online: Wapentake of Framland], accessed November 2019.</ref>

The name remains in use as a [[deanery]] of the [[Diocese of Leicester]] in the [[Church of England]].

The original meeting place of the hundred was at Great Framland.<ref>Sam Turner, ''[http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704010041/http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html |date=2007-07-04 }}''</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Map/FramlandCs.html Map of Framland]

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[[Category:Ancient subdivisions of Leicestershire]]


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