Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WILLOUGHBY-WATERLESS

WILLOUGHBY-WATERLESS, a parish, with a village, in Lutterworth district, Leicester; 1¾ mile ESE of Broughton-Astley r. station, and 6 NNE of Lutterworth. Post town, Lutterworth. Acres, 1,151. Real property, £2,408. Pop., 372. Houses, 78. The living is a rectory, united with Peatling-Magna, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £347.* Patron, the Rev. W. Strong. The church is chiefly decorated English. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Willoughby Waterleys AP/CP       Lutterworth RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Willoughby Waterleys

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