Beaumont Chase
Beaumont Chase is a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is to the west of Uppingham, north of Stoke Dry, and on a hillside overlooking Leicestershire. Formerly an extra-parochial area, it was created a separate parish in 1858.
The civil parish's name means 'Beautiful hill'. 'Chase' is a later addition which means a place for breeding and hunting wild animals.
There is only a single occupied building, a farmhouse. According to the 2001 census, Beaumont Chase had a population of zero.
References
- ^ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
- ^ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
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