Description
Twyford, a parish and a township, with a village, in Leicestershire, 6 miles SSW of Melton Mowbray. It has a station called John o' Gaunt, 1 mile from the village on the G.N and L. & N.W. Joint railway, and a post and money order office under Melton Mowbray; telegraph office, John o' Gaunt (R.S.) Acreage, 1205;'population, 330; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Hungarton, 813. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage, annexed with the chapelry of Thorpe Sutchville to Hungarton, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net value, £114 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
