Brooksby
For the hamlet in Canada, see Brooksby, Saskatchewan.
Coordinates: 52°44′N 1°00′W / 52.73°N 01.00°W
Brooksby is a disused village in Leicestershire, England. It is the ancestral home of the Villiers family. Brooksby and surrounding villages was 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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