Blackfordby, Leicestershire

Description
Blackfordby, a parish, formed in 1876 from portions of the parishes of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Seal, and Hartshorne, and which includes the villages of Blackfordby and Boundary, and the township of Boothorpe, Leicestershire. It is 2 1/2 miles NW from Ashhy-de-la-Zouch station on the M.R. Post town, Burton-on-Trent; money order and telegraph office, Woodville. Area, 1302 acres; population of the civil parish, 1040; of the ecclesiastical, 1359. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £193, in the gift of Lord Donington. The church, erected in 1858 on the site of the old building, is a structure of grey sandstone in the Early English style. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels. Boundary is a straggling village about 3/4 of a mile to the NE. Boothorpe is a township 3/4 of a mile SW of the village of Blackfordby.