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Launde is a civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, bordering Rutland. The parish is the site of Launde Abbey. It gives its name to an electoral division of Leicestershire that stretches all the way from Scraptoft, Thurnby and Stoughton, near Leicester, to the border with Rutland. The civil parish population is included in the civil parish of Loddington.
Launde Park lies in the valley of the River Chater. The Elizabethan house embodies the relics of the old priory and is an E-shaped building of two storeys. The private chapel is from the Perpendicular period and contains some good stained glass. There are numerous memorials of the Simpson family who bought Launde in 1763 and enlarged the house and laid out the plantations. The estate was later owned by the Dawson family.
Usage examples of "launde".
Then twenty-two years ago, after nearly twenty years of ill-tempered confrontation with his fellow theorists, he had, with characteristic abruptness, resigned from his position at Cambridge and retreated to Launde Abbey to pursue his theories without carping interference from lesser minds, his brilliance and loud vocal intolerance of the dry, crusty world endemic to academia creating a media legend of Bohemian eccentricity in the process.
There had even been a statement, shortly after he bought Launde Abbey, that he was only going to invite female students to become his tyros, providing himself with a harem of muses.
Stocken Hall was only about fifteen kilometres from Launde Abbey as the crow flies.
So in order to get on to the road to Launde you have to go through either Loddington or Belton.
Further down from Launde, the floor of the valley was crossed by a few minor roads, but essentially it was empty until he reached Ketton, twenty kilometres away.
His fingernail made a light click as he touched the screen above Launde Park.
The turning down to Launde Park was five hundred metres past the end of the tanbark oak saplings.
I need to know what happened that night at Launde, build up a complete picture, so I have several questions.
And that is what Launde is for, to cure us of our adolescence, realign our thought patterns into sensible maturity.
When I came to Launde I was almost as bad as Nick, all meek and tongue-tied.
The Launde students had been co-operative, a welcome change from the hideously antagonistic mullahs in Turkey.
Although if anyone at Launde Abbey was due to be murdered, I would have put money on it being her.
Snapshots of Launde, the students, Kitchener, police reports, they all chased across his consciousness in endless procession, sharp-edged and insistent.
He had his own vat at Launde, but the basic compounds still cost money.
Kitchener lives at Launde Abbey, and you know there is a kitchen there.