Description
Braunston, a parish in Rutland, on the river Gwash, 2 1/2 miles SW of Oakham station on the M.R. It has a post office under Oakham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1577; population, 350. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value, £250 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is an ancient Gothic building of stone, and there are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Braunton which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
