Mowsley, pronounced ''"mowzley"'' (rhyming with "cows") (from Muslai - mouse infested field) is a small village in the south part of
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
. The modern village has just under 100
dwellings
In law, a dwelling (also known as a residence or an abode) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home - such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, vehicle, or other "substantial" structure. The ...
. The population (including Knaptoft) at the 2011 census was 302.
Entries in Domesday
According to the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
, Mowsley had two manors in 1086, situated in the ancient
hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
of
Gartree Gartree could refer to
*Gartree (HM Prison), a Category B men's prison located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire
*Gartree Hundred, a wapentake and later a hundred of Leicestershire, England
*Gartree High School, a Secondary School in Leicester ...
. This was a chapelry in the ancient