Brooke, a village and a parish in Rutland, on the brook Gwash, 2 1/4 miles SSE of Oakham station on the M.R. Post town, Oakham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 1439; population, 102. A small Augustinian priory was founded here in the time of Richard I. by Hugh Ferrers, made subordinate to the monastery of Kenilworth, and given at the dissolution to Anthony Coope. The living is a chapelry, annexed with Egleton and Langham to the vicarage of Oakham, in the diocese of Peterborough; united gross yearly value, £800 with residence. It derives its name from the little brook (Saxon, broc) above mentioned. The church has been thoroughly restored in the Jacobean, its original style.
