Newtown Linford, Leicestershire

Description
Newtown Linford, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands on an affluent of the Soar, near Charnwood Forest, 3 1/2 miles NW from Glenfield station on the Leicester and Swannington branch of the M.R., and 5 1/2 NW of Leicester. It has a post office under Leicester ; money order and telegraph office, Groby. The parish comprises 4266 acres of land and 122 of water; population of the civil parish, 357; of the ecclesiastical, 411. The manor belongs to the Countess of Stamford and Warrington. Roecliffe Hall is a fine mansion standing in a well-timbered park about 2 miles from the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £110. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of nave, N aisle, transept, S porch, and an embattled western tower. A new chancel and N aisle were built in 1894. Bradgate Park, formerly an extra-parochial tract, now forms part of the parishes of Newtown Linford, Anstey, and Ulverscroft. It contains the reservoir of the Leicester Waterworks Company and the ruins of an ancient mansion, formerly the seat of the Grey family, Barons Grey of Groby.