Description
Branston, Branstone, or Braunston, a parish in Leicestershire, 4 1/2 miles SE from Harby and Stathern station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railways, and 8 NNE of Melton-Mowbray. It has a post office under Grantham ; money order and telegraph office, Knipton. Acreage, 1837; population, 257. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £266 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is a building of stone partly in the Perpendicular style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
