Scalford, Leicestershire

Description
Scalford, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, 4 miles N by E of Melton Mowbray. It has a station half a mile W on the G.N.R. and L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Melton Mowbray; telegraph office, railway station. Acreage, 2522; population, 646. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. A Roman station was on the site of the village, and in former times there was a market and a fair. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is an ancient building of stone, with traces of Saxon and Norman work, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, 5 porch, and an embattled tower. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.