Lowesby, Leicestershire

Description
Lowesby, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The township lies 3 3/4 miles N by E of Billesdon, and 10 E by N from Leicester, and has a station on the Peterborough and Leicester branch of the G.N.R. Post town, Leicester via Billesdon; money order office, Billesdon; telegraph office at Loseby railway station. Area of township, 1424 acres; population, 136; of the ecclesiastical parish, 229. The manor, with Lowesby Hall, a fine mansion standing in a well-timbered park of 100 acres, belongs to the Fowke family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £68 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, consists of chancel, nave, aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower, and contains some ancient monuments.