Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROTHLEY

ROTHLEY, a village, a township, and a sub-district, in Barrow-upon-Soar district, and a parish partly also in Billelon and Melton-Mowbray districts, Leicester. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, 1½ mile S of Mountsorrel, and 2¾ N W of Syston r. station; and has a post-office under Loughborough, and an ancient manorial court-house. The township comprises, with Rothley-Temple extra-parochial tract, 2, 170 acres. Real property, without that tract, £4, 224. Pop., 939. Houses, 202.—The sub-district contains also seven extra-parochial tracts, two parishes, and part of another. Acres, 14, 657. Pop., 4, 796. Houses, 1,067. The parish contains the townships of Rothley, Mountsorrel-South End, and Keyham, and the chapelries of Wartnaby and Wycomb-with-Chad-well. Acres, 5, 480. Pop., 2, 213. Houses, 486. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to H. R. Parker, Esq. The Barrow-upon-Soar workhouse is in R.township; and is a commodious structure, with a Tudorfront. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Keyham, Wartnaby, Wycomb-with-Chadwell, and Gaddesby, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £500.* Patrons, the Executors of the lateC. Macaulay, Esq. The church is ancient but good. The p. curacy of Mount-sorrel-Christchurch, is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £15 a year, a national school, and charities £20.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rothley Tn/AP/CP       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Rothley

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