Description
Cadeby, a township and a parish in Leicestershire. The township lies 1 1/2 mile SE by S of Market-Bosworth station on the Ashby and Nun Junction railway, and 5 miles WSW of Desford station on the M.B. The parish contains also the township of Osbaston, and its post town is Hinckley; money order and telegraph office, Market-Bosworth. Acreage of the civil parish, 1008; population, 166; of the ecclesiastical parish, 226. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £322 with residence. The church is a small but ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
