Description
Countesthorpe, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire, on a branch of the river Soar, and on the M.R., 5 1/2 miles S by W of Leicester, with a station on the railway, and a post and money order office under Leicester; telegraph office, Wigston. Acreage of the township, 1332; population, 1344. Many of the inhabitants are framework knitters. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; net yearly value, £159. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church was built in 1842, but has the tower of a previous edifice. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Leicester Union Cottage Homes, belonging to the guardians of the Blaby Union, are about three-fourths of a mile W of the village.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
