Description
Brooksby, a parish in Leicestershire, on the river Wreak, and on the Syston and Peterborough branch of the M.R., 3 miles E of the Fosse Way, and 5 3/4 WSW of Melton-Mow-bray. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Leicester; money order office, Rearsby; telegraph office at Brooksby station. Acreage, 867; population, 42. Brooksby Hall was formerly the seat of the Villierses, and was the birthplace of the first Villiers Duke of Buckingham. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £200. The church, a fine building of stone in the Decorated style, contains monuments of the Villierses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
