Description
Barwell, a township and a parish in Leicestershire. The township lies 2 miles NNE of Hinckley railway station, and 6 1/2 NE of Nuneaton, and has a post and telegraph office under Hinckley. The parish includes also the hamlet of Potters-Marston and the chapelry of Stapleton. Area, 2387 acres; population of the civil parish, 2022; of the ecclesiastical, 2262. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacies of Marston and Stapletou, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £600 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The chief industries are boot and shoe making, framework knitting, and farming.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
