Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire

Description
Kirkby Mallory, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands 3 1/2 miles SWof Desford station on the M.R., and 4 SE of Market Bosworth, and formerly had a market and a fair. It has a post office under Hinck-ley; money order and telegraph office, Earl Shilton. Acreage, 2041; population, 179. The manor belonged anciently to the Mallorys, was held for a time by Leicester Abbey, and passed at the dissolution of the monasteries to Mr Harvey, father of Anne Fowler, who married a Noel, in which family it has remained to the present time-the Earl of Lovelace, to whom it now belongs, being lineally descended from that family. Kirkby Hall is a handsome mansion in a fine park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £269 with residence. The church, which is a small building of stone in the Norman style, has a tower, and contains monuments of the Noels. The township and parish of EARL SHILTON is noticed separately.