Sproxton, Leicestershire

Description
Sproxton, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, 3 1/2 miles N of Edmondthorpe Wymondham station on the Saxby-Bourne branch of the M.R., and 8 1/2 NE by E of Melton Mowbray. It has a post office under Melton Mowbray; money order and telegraph office, Buckminster. Acreage, 2338; population of the civil parish, 336; of the ecclesiastical, with Saltby, 589. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart. The Duke of Rutland is chief landowner. The living is a vicarage, united with Saltby, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style. It was restored in 1884 at a cost of about £2500. There is a Wesleyan chapel.