Description
Edmondthorpe, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, on the verge of the county, adjacent to the Melton-Mowbray Canal, 3 miles E from Whissendine station on the M.R., and 7 E by S from Melton-Mowbray, with a post office under Oakham; money order and telegraph office, Wymondham. Acreage, 1803 ; population, 251. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough ; gross yearly value, £404 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very handsome, Early Gothic, and retains portions of its Norman and Saxon originals. It has a pinnacled tower. Edmondthorpe Hall, the seat of the Pochin family, is a fine old mansion standing in a park of 75 acres.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
