Description
Coston, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, on an affluent of the river Wreak, 3 1/2 miles NE of Saxby station on the M.R., and 7 ENE of Melton-Mowbray, with a post office under Melton-Mowbray; money order office, Wymond-ham; telegraph office, Buckminster. Acreage, 1766 ; population, 104. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £215 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a neat building of stone in the Perpendicular style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
