Burton Lazars, Leicestershire

Description
Burton-Lazars, a township, a village, and a chapelry in Melton-Mowbray parish, Leicestershire, adjacent to the Melton-Mowbray and Oakham Canal, and 1 1/2 mile SE by S of Melton-Mowbray, which is the nearest railway station, There is a post office under Melton-Mowbray, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of township, 2780 , population, 311. A lepers' hospital was founded here in the time of Stephen, partly by a general collection throughout England, but chiefly by the Mowbrays, and was the chief lazar-house in England. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Melton-Mowbray, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is an old building of stone in the Decorated style. Burton Hall is a handsome mansion of red stone.