Description
Gopsall, formerly an extra-parochial tract in Leicestershire, is now a parish, and for ecclesiastical purposes is annexed to Norton-juxta-Twycross, near the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal, 6 miles NW of Market Bosworth, and 2 W from Shackerstone station on the Ashby and Nuneaton Junction railway. Acreage, 729; population, 25. It had a cell to Merevale Abbey. Gopsall Hall is the seat of Earl Howe, was built by Jennins the friend of Handel, has a beautiful chapel 36 feet by 24, contains some interesting portraits and paintings, and stands amid fine grounds which have a temple with a statue by Boubiliac.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
