Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRENTINGBY

BRENTINGBY, a chapelry in Wyfordby parish, Leicester; on the river Wreak, the Oakham canal, and the Midland railway, 2 miles E of Melton-Mowbray. Post Town, Melton-Mowbray. Pop., 54. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Thorpe-Arnold, in the diocese of Peterborough.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bretingby and Wyfordby CP/AP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Brentingby

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