Description
Catthorpe or Calthorpe, a parish in Leicestershire, on the verge of the county, Watling Street, and the river Avon, near the M.R., 4 miles ENE of Rugby, and 1/2 mile NW from Lilbourn station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Rugby; money order office, Rugby; telegraph office, Clifton. Acreage, 645; population, 160. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £225 with residence. The church is a small edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. The font, east window, and sepulchral slab belong to the 13th century. A small chalice bears the date 1565.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
