Plungar, Leicestershire

Description
Plungar, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, on the Grantham and Nottingham Canal, adjacent to Notts, 1 1/2 mile S from Redmile station, 2 miles N from Stathern station on the Market Harborough and Newark branch of the Great Northern and London and North-Western Joint railway, and 10 N by E from Melton Mowbray. Post town, Nottingham, via Bottesford; money order and telegraph office, Harby. Acreage, 979; population, 224. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £103 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an embattled western tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.