Skeffington, Leicestershire

Description
Skeffington, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Leicestershire, 4 miles S of Tilton station on the Newark and Market Harborough Joint Line of the G.N.R. and L. & N.W.R., and 10 E by S of Leicester. It has a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Billesdon. Acreage, 2189; population, 172. The manor with Skeffington Hall belongs to the Tailby family. Skeffington Hall was the seat of the baronet family of Skeffington, extinct in 1850; was the birthplace of Bishop and Lord Deputy Skeffington of the early part of the 16th century, and is a large mansion with castellated E and S front. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £447 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower.