Description
Charley or Charnwood, formerly an extra-parochial tract, in Leicestershire, on the Wolds, in Charnwood Forest, 5 1/2 miles SW of Loughborough. It is now included in the new parishes of the Oaks and Copt Oak. The area was formerly 500 acres, but in 1885 some outlying portions of Markfield and Newtown Linford were added, and it is now 1334 acres; population, 151. Post town, Loughborough; money order and telegraph office, Markfield. The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Oaks in the diocese of Peterborough. An Augustinian friary was founded here in the time of Henry II. by the Blanchmains, and some remains of it exist.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
