Description
Thornton, a small village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire, 1 1/4 mile SE from Bagworth station on the Leicester and Burton branch of the M.R., and 5 miles NE by E from Market Bosworth. There is a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Bagworth (R.S.) Acreage of the township, 2180; population, 500; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Bagworth and Stanton-under-Bardon, 1494. The living is a vicarage, with Bagworth and. Stanton chapelries, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net value, £210 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
