Brooksby is a deserted village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

, now in the parish of Hoby with Rotherby, in the Melton district, in Leicestershire, England. It was the ancestral home of the

Villiers family Villiers ( ) is an aristocratic family in the United Kingdom. Over time, various members of the Villiers family were made knights, baronets, and peers. Peerages held by the Villiers family include the dukedoms of Buckingham (1623–1687) and Cleve ...

. Brooksby and surrounding villages were served by

Brooksby railway station Brooksby railway station was a former station serving the villages of Brooksby, Hoby and Rotherby in Leicestershire. The station was situated at a level crossing on the Brooksby to Hoby road. History The station opened in 1846 on the Syston ...

. In 1931 the parish had a population of 69. The name 'Brooksby' means 'farm/settlement of Brok' or 'farm/settlement with a brook'. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form Hoby with Rotherby.

Brooksby Hall Brooksby Hall is a late16th-century manor house on 3.2 square kilometres (800 acres) of land between Leicester and Melton Mowbray. Situated northeast of Leicester, the hall and the neighbouring church of St Michael and All Angels are the last re ...

, a 16th-century manor house, and the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Brooksby, are all that remains of a village that was cleared to enable sheep to be grazed. The church was once the living for Henry Gregg who was married to the writer Mary Kirby.Ann B. Shteir, ‘Kirby, Mary (1817–1893)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 15 September 2014
Today the hall has conference and banqueting facilities. Brooksby Melton College offers apprenticeships and further education training courses in animal care, countryside, equine, fisheries, and land based service engineering.

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Brooksby
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Brooksby Hall
Villages in Leicestershire Deserted medieval villages in Leicestershire Former civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Melton {{Leicestershire-geo-stub