Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHADWELL, or Caldwell

CHADWELL, or Caldwell, a chapelry in Rothley parish, Leicester; near the Salt way, 5 miles NNW of Saxby r. station, and 5 NE of Melton-Mowbray. Post Town, Scalford, under Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,730. Pop., 139. Houses, 27. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Rothley, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is good, and has a tower.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rothley Tn/AP/CP       Leicestershire AncC
Place names: CALDWELL     |     CHADWELL     |     CHADWELL OR CALDWELL
Place: Chadwell

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