Description
Belton, a small town and a parish in Leicestershire, 4 miles NW from Swannington station on the M.R., 4 N from Whitwich station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7 WNW of Loughborough. The parish statistics include the liberty of Grace-Dieu. It has a post office under Loughborough, money order and telegraph office, Shepshed. Acreage, 2345; population, 671. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £198 with residence. The church is a fine old edifice, with tower and spire, and contains a monument of Rocsia de Verdun, the founder of Grace-Dieu nunnery. There are General Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist chapels. A large horse fair is held here on the second Monday after Trinity Sunday.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
