Description
Kirby Muxloe, a township and a chapelry, with a village, in Glenfield parish, Leicestershire, on a branch of the river Soar, and on the Leicester and Burton branch of the M.R., 4 1/4miles W of Leicester. It has a station on the railway, and a post and telegraph office under Leicester; money order office, Desford. Acreage, 1865; population, 554. The manor belongs to the Pochin family. Remains exist of a moated castle of the family of the Hastings, partly clad with ivy. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Glenfield, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
