Brooksby
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Brooksby | |
Brooksby Hall |
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Brooksby shown within Leicestershire
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OS grid reference | SK6716 |
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Civil parish | Hoby with Rotherby |
District | Melton |
Shire county | Leicestershire |
Region | East Midlands |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MELTON MOWBRAY |
Postcode district | LE14 |
Dialling code | 01664 |
Police | Leicestershire |
Fire | Leicestershire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
EU Parliament | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | Rutland and Melton |
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Brooksby is a deserted village in Leicestershire, England. It was the ancestral home of the Villiers family. Brooksby and surrounding villages were served by Brooksby railway station.
Brooksby Hall is a 16th-century manor house and its church are all that remains of a village that was cleared to enable sheep to be graxed. The church was once the living for Henry Gregg who was married to the writer Mary Kirby.[1] Today the hall has conference and banqueting facilities. Brooksby Melton College offers apprenticeships and further education training courses in animal care, countryside, equine, fisheries, and land based service engineering.
References
- ↑ Ann B. Shteir, ‘Kirby , Mary (1817–1893)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 September 2014
External links
- Brooksby Retrieved 26 August 2013
- Brooksby Hall
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