Description
Beeby, a parish in Leicestershire, on an affluent of the river Wreak, 3 miles NE of Thurnby and Scraptoft station on the G.N.R., and 6 1/2 NE of Leicester, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Syston. Acreage, 1435; population, 106. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £245 with residence. The church is a stone building in the Early English style, and was partly restored in 1867. The chancel was restored and the south porch in 1893.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
