Brooksby, Leicestershire
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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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
, now in the parish of
Hoby with Rotherby Hoby with Rotherby is a civil parish in Leicestershire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 594, reducing to 556 at the time of the 2011 census. It includes the villages of Hoby, Rotherby, Ragdale and Brooksby. The parish is ...
, in the Melton district of
Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...
, England. It was the ancestral home of the
Villiers family Villiers ( ) is an Nobility, 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 Duke of Buckingham, Bucki ...
. Brooksby and surrounding villages were served by Brooksby railway station. 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 r ...
, a 16th-century manor house, and the
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Brooksby The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a church in Brooksby, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The church lies within the grounds of Brooksby Hall. The church consists of a tower, chancel and nave. The tower was ...
, 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
Retrieved 26 August 2013
Brooksby Hall
Villages in Leicestershire Deserted medieval villages in Leicestershire Former civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Melton {{Leicestershire-geo-stub