Description
Barkestone, a pleasant village and a parish in Leicestershire, in the Vale of Belvoir. It is 9 miles from Grantham, 1 1/4 mile from Redmill station on the G.N.R., and 4 miles from Harby and Stathern station on the G.N.R. and L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Nottingham; money order office, Bottesford; telegraph office, Harby and Bottes-ford. Acreage, 2087; population, 329. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is a fine building of stone, and there are an endowed school and several useful charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
