Brooksby

Brooksby is a deserted village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hoby with Rotherby, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It was the ancestral home of the Villiers family.

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Type: Abandoned railway station
Description: village and former civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Brooksby, Leicestershire”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of All Saints and Brooksby Hall.

Church of All Saints

Church

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Church of All Saints is situated 1,800 feet east of Brooksby.

Brooksby Hall

Building

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Brooksby Hall is a late–16th-century manor house on 3.2 square kilometres of land between Leicester and Melton Mowbray. Situated 13 kilometres northeast of Leicester, the hall and the neighbouring church of St Michael and All Angels are the last remnants of the medieval village of Brooksby, which was founded during the period of the Danelaw in the 9th century AD. Brooksby Hall is situated 970 feet south of Brooksby.

Church of All Saints, Hoby

Church

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Church of All Saints, Hoby is situated 3,300 feet north of Brooksby.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rotherby and Hoby.

Rotherby

Village

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Rotherby is a village and former civil parish, 9 miles north east of Leicester, now in the parish of Hoby with Rotherby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 133.