Newfoundpool

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Newfoundpool is an area of Leicester lying south of the former Leicester-Swannington railway. The land was purchased by Isaac Harrison in 1830. Harrison intended to develop the area as a spa, using a spring as the source of water for a bathing establishment. Later the building was converted into a residence, Newfoundpool House, in which successive members of the Harrison family lived until 1885. The house is now the Empire Hotel on Fosse Road North.

A Leicester builder, Orson Wright, purchased the land in 1885. Wright laid out roads across the area and sold off the land as building plots. The majority of houses built were of the two-storey terraced type, brick-built, with the corner sites constructed as shops. Along Fosse Road North a number of three- and four-storey red-brick villas were built. On the same road the parish church of St. Augustine was built over the period 1900 to 1912.

The area's connection with the Harrison family is commemorated by an acrostic, "HARRISON", formed by the initial letters of the street names between Pool Road and Beatrice Road. ^[1]

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