Extracts From 19th Century Directories

White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland (1877)

MARKET BOSWORTH parish , which is the head of a Poor Law Union, a Petty Sessional, and a County Court District, is in Sparkenhoe Hundred, and comprises the townships of Barlestone, Carlton, Market Bosworth, Shenton, and Sutton Cheney and in 1871 had 2416 person, living in 516 houses, on 7449 acres. It gives name to a small ancient market town, seated on a pleasant emminence, 13 miles W. by S. of Leicester, 7 miles N. by W. of Hinckleyand 107 miles N.W. by N. of London. Its township, in 1871, contained 949 inhabitants, and comprises 2806 acres. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal passes about a mile west of the town; and the Ashby and Nuneaton railway, which was opened on Sept. 1 1873, passes through the parish further to the west of the canal. There is a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton joint line (London and North Western and Midland Railways). The soil is mostly clay, and belongs partly to the Earl of Lovelace, but mostly to Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, Bart., who succeeded his father in 1872, and is the eleventh baronet.
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White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Countie of Derbyshire (1857)

APPLEBY is a large and pleasant village and parish partly situated in Leicestershire, 5¾ miles S.W. by S. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 10 miles S.E. by S. from Burton-upon-Trent, and 20 miles S.W. from Derby, forms the south extremity of that county, and of a detached portion of Derbyshire, containing Chilcote, Measham, Oakthorpe, and Willesley, and a part of Donisthorpe and Stretton-en-le-Field, parishes locally situated in the West Goscote Hundred of the county of Leicester. The entire parish of Appleby contains 2748A. 3R. 11P. of fertile clay land, and had in 1851, 270 houses, and 1181 inhabitants, of whom 576 were males, and 605 females; rateable value £4,858 11s. Market Bosworth Grammar School owns the estate and manor of the Derbyshire part; to whom it was given by the son of Sir Wolstan Dixie, who had purchased it from the co-heirs of the last of the Appleby family, who died in 1636. George Moor, Esq., is the principal owner and lord of the manor of the Leicestershire part.
From Neil Wilson's Transcription