Description
Croft, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, near the Fosse Way and on the river Soar, 5 1/2 miles ENE from Hinckley, and about 8 miles from Leicester, with a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Stony Stanton or Narborough. Acreage, 897; population of the civil parish, 661; of the ecclesiastical, 673. Croft Hall, the seat of the Brookes family, is a chief residence. There is a large syenite rock quarry here, and bricks and concrete are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £450. The church is a building of syenite rock in the Decorated and Early English styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
