Description
Morcott, a pleasant village and a parish in Rutland. The village stands on an affluent of the river Chater and on the M.R. and L. & N.W.R., 2 miles SW of Luffenham station, and 4 E by N of Uppingham, and has a post and money order office under Uppingham; telegraph office, South Luffenham. The railway passes under part of it through a tunnel half a mile in length. The parish comprises 1363 acres; population, 450. The manor, with Morcott Hall, belongs to the Fydell-Rowley family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £330 with residence. The church is a building of stone of the Norman and Perpendicular periods, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower, with short lead-covered spire, and contains an old monument of W. de Overton with an inscription in Norman-French. There are a Baptist chapel and an endowed hospital for six poor unmarried persons, each of whom receives £26 a year.
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Morcott which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
