Description
Burbage, a chapelry, a village, and township in Leicestershire. The chapelry is in Aston-Flamville parish, lies on the verge the county, at Watling Street, 1 1/2 mile SE of Hinckley station on the L. & N.W. & M.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hinckley. Acreage of township, 3105 ; population, 1876. Many of the inhabitants are framework knitters. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Aston-Flamville, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church, rebuilt in 1842, is in the Early English style, and has a tower and spire. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
