Bottesford, Leicestershire

Description
Bottesford or Botsworth, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands in the vale of Belvoir, about a mile N of the Nottingham and Grantham canal, on which there is a wharf, and 7 miles WNW of Grantham. It has a station on the G.N.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Nottingham. The parish includes also the hamlets of Easthorpe and Normanton. Acreage, 4978; population, 286. The manor was given at the Conquest to R. de Todeni, and belongs now to the Dake of Rutland. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £800 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is large, cruciform, and very good, with a tower at the west end, and contains monuments to Lords Roos and to many of the Earls of Rutland. There are also Particular Baptist, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school, some almshouses, and several useful charities.