Description
Thrussington, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, on the river Wreake, half a mile N of Rearsby station on the Syston and Peterborough branch of the M.R., and 7 1/4 miles WSW of Melton Mowbray. It has a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Rearsby. Acreage, 2033; population, 489. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £180 with residence. The church is an edifice of stone chiefly in the Transitional style from Early English to Decorated, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
