Saxby, Leicestershire

Description
Saxby, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Leicestershire, on the river Eye and the Syston and Peterborough and Kettering and Nottingham branches of the M.R., 4 1/2 miles E by N of Melton Mowbray. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Melton Mowbray; money order office, Wymondham; telegraph office, railway station. Acreage, 1412; population of the civil parish, 182; of the ecclesiastical, with Stapleford, 307. Ancient weapons, earthen urns, bridle bits, fibulas, and other relics have been found, some of which are preserved in the Bede House, Melton Mowbray. The living is a rectory, united with Stapleford, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £160 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1789, and is a building of stone in the Italian style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower with spire.