Brooksby

Brooksby
Brooksby
	Brooksby Hall
	Brooksby Location within Leicestershire
OS grid reference	SK6716
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
UK Parliament	Rutland and Melton;
	List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°44′17″N 1°00′22″W / 52.738°N 1.006°W

Brooksby is a deserted village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hoby with Rotherby, in the Melton district, in Leicestershire, England. It was the ancestral home of the Villiers family. Brooksby and surrounding villages were served by Brooksby railway station. In 1931 the parish had a population of 69.^[1]

The name 'Brooksby' means 'farm/settlement of Brok' or 'farm/settlement with a brook'.^[2]

On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Hoby with Rotherby.^[3]

Brooksby Hall, a 16th-century manor house, and the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Brooksby, are all that remains of a village that was cleared to enable sheep to be grazed. The church was once the living for Henry Gregg who was married to the writer Mary Kirby.^[4] 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

^ "Population statistics Brooksby AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
^ "Relationships and changes Brooksby AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
^ Ann B. Shteir, ‘Kirby, Mary (1817–1893)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 September 2014 Archived 7 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Brooksby Retrieved 26 August 2013
Brooksby Hall

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[1] "Population statistics Brooksby AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[2] "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.

[3] "Relationships and changes Brooksby AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[odnb-4] Ann B. Shteir, ‘Kirby, Mary (1817–1893)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 September 2014 Archived 7 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine

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