Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ARNESBY

ARNESBY, a parish in Lutterworth district, Leicester; 3½ miles SE of Countessthorpe r. station, and 8 S by E of Leicester. Post Town, Shearsby under Rugby. Acres, 1,510. Real property, £3,034. Pop., 573. Houses, 121. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £119. Patron, the Rev. W. Pilling. A Baptist church has existed here since 1702. Robert Hall was a native. Charities, 57.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Arnesby AP/CP       Lutterworth RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Arnesby

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