Description
Cosby, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, near the M.E. and the Fosse Way, 1£ mile NNE of Broughton Astley railway station, and 7 miles SSW of Leicester, under which is the post office ; money order and telegraph office, Narborough. The parish includes also part of the village of Little Thorpe. Acreage, 2318 ; population of the civil parish, 1161; of the ecclesiastical, 1073. A number of the inhabitants are framework knitters. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; value, £100. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
