Description
Broughton, Nether, a parish in Leicestershire, on the verge of the county, near the Fosse Way and the Grantham. Canal, 6 miles NW by N of Melton-Mowbray, and 1 1/2 mile NE of Old Dalby station on the M.R. It has a post office under Melton-Mowbray; money order office, Hickling ; telegraph office, Old Dalby. Acreage, 2301; population, 400. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough ; value, about £368 with residence. The church has an embattled pinnacled tower, and is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a small charity for the poor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
