Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WYFORDBY

WYFORDBY, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; on the Syston and Peterborough railway, 2¼ miles E of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,350. Real property, £2,034. Pop., 144. Houses, 26. The manor belongs to Sir W. E.Hartopp, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value £193.* Patron, Sir W. E.Hartopp, Bart. The church is of the 13th century. There is a national school.


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

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

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