Measham, Derbyshire

Description
Measham, a village, a township, and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal, near the river Mease and the boundary with Leicestershire, 3 1/2 miles SW by S of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, has a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Atherstone. The township comprises 1749 acres; population, 1653. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of seven members. Measham Hall is a chief residence. The manufacture of smallware, and brickfields and adjacent collieries, employ most of the inhabitants. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of South-well; gross value, £87 with residence. Patron, Lord Donington, who is lord of the manor. The church is good, and was restored in 1843, and there are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic chapels and a temperance hall.