Heather, Leicestershire

Description
Heather, a parish in Leicestershire, on the river Sence, and 5 miles SE by S from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It has a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton, L. & N.W., and Midland Joint railways, and a post office under Ashby-de-la-Zouch; money order and telegraph office, Ibstock. Acreage, 1042; population, 538. The manor house contains some relics of a com-mandery of the Rnights of St John, which dated prior to the time of Riog John, and was given at the dissolution to Oliver St John and Robert Thornton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £333. The church is an ancient stone building of the Early English period, and there are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. There is a colliery, and also brick, tile, and terra-cotta works.