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John O' Gaunt Viaduct

Other OS name in the Parish of Twyford and Thorpe

Etymology

, a 14 - arch viaduct of the former Great Northern and London North Western Joint Railway , v. also John O ' Gaunt , a fox covert in neighbouring Lowesby . John of Gaunt ( d. 1399 ) was a major landowner in Leics . His second wife , Constance of Castile , was buried in the Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in The Newarke , Leicester ( v. Lei 1101 ) , of which only fragments remain .