Description
Braunstone, a township and an ecclesiastical district in Glenfield parish, Leicestershire, on the Union Canal, 2 1/2 miles SW of Leicester, which is the nearest railway station, and post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage of township, 1489; population, 169. Braunstone Frith (population, 10), extra-parochial, adjoins on the NW. Braunstone Hall, a fine mansion of brick, stands in a park of 10 acres. The district is a perpetual curacy, in the rectory of Glenfield, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church, an ancient edifice of stone in the Later Norman style, is said to date from the 14th century.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
