Description
Burton-Overy, a parish in Leicestershire, near the Union Canal, 8 miles SE from Leicester, 2 1/2 NE from Glen station, and 3 N from Kibworth station, both on the M.R. It has a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Great Glen. Acreage, 1899, population, 348. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £400 with residence. The church is Decorated and Later English; it was restored in 1863. There are a Congregational chapel and some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
