Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIRKBY-MALLORY

KIRKBY-MALLORY, a village and a township in Market-Bosworth district, and a parish partly also in Hinckley district, Leicester. The village stands 3¼ miles SW of Desford r. station, and 4 SE of Market-Bosworth; and formerly had a market and a fair. The township comprises 2, 190 acres. Real property, £3, 868. Pop., 216. Houses, 52. The parish contains also the chapelry of Earl-Shilton, which has a post office under Hinckley. Acres, of the parish, 3, 110. Real property, £11, 339. Pop., 2, 392. Houses, 532. The manor belonged anciently to the Mallorys; was held, for a time, by Leicester abbey, and passed through various hands, to the Noels; and it had anciently a castle. Kirkby Hall, a handsome mansion in a fine park, is the seat of the Baroness de Clifford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £410.* Patron, Earl Lovelace. The church has a tower, and contains monuments of the Noels. There are a free school, and charities £45. See Earl-Shilton.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hinckley RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Kirkby Mallory

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