Description
Thurlaston, a parish, with a village, and a township, in Leicestershire, 3 miles NW from Narborough station on the Leicester and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 1/2 SW from Leicester. It has a post office under Hinckley; money order and telegraph office, Earl Shilton. Acreage, 2575; population of the civil parish, 514; of the ecclesiastical, 526. Normanton Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £295 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower. It contains some fine ancient tombs and monuments. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
