Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STATHERN

STATHERN, a parish, with a village, in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 6 miles SSW of Bottesford r. station. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,420. Real property, £3,952. Pop., 524. Houses, 124. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £700.* Patron, St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £8.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stathern AP/CP       Melton Mowbray RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Stathern

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