Description
Worthington, a parish, consisting of the four townships of Worthington, Newbold, Griffydam, and Gelsmore, in Leicestershire, 4 miles NE from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It has a station on the Ashby and Melbourne branch of the M.R., and a post office under Ashby-de-la-Zouch; money order and telegraph office, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Acreage, 1732; population, 928. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to Earl Ferrers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £107 with residence, in the gift of Lord Scarsdale. The church is a plain edifice of stone dating from about the end of the 12th century. There are two Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
