Thurnby, Leicestershire

Description
Thurnby, a parish, with two townships and a village in Leicestershire, 3 1/2 miles E of Leicester, with a station, called Thurnby and Scraptoft, on the Leicester branch of the G.N.R. It has a post office under Leicester; money order office, New Humberstone; telegraph office, Charnwood Street. The townships are Bushby and Stoughton, the latter of which is noticed under a separate heading. Acreage, 1405; population, 888. The manor belongs to the Powys-Keck family. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelries of Bushby and Stoughton annexed, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net value, £204 with residence. The church, which was rebuilt in 1873, is a building in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled central tower.