Description
Diseworth, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, on an affluent of the river Trent, near the boundary with Notts, 2 1/2 miles S from Castle Donington station on the M.R., and.. 6 NW from Loughborough, with a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Castle Donington. Acreage, 1961; population, 369. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £130 with residence. Patron, alternately the Haberdashers' Company and Christ's Hospital. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English Transition style. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Lilly the astrologer, the " Sidrophel" of Butler's l' Hudibras," was born here in 1602.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
