Brentingby

 Extract from Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, Leicester & Rutland and Debryshire, 1881

BRENTINGBY is a township and chapelry, civilly connected with Wyfordby, and ecclesiastically with Thorpe Arnold, in the Northern division of the county, Framland hundred, Melton Mowbray union and county court district. Framland second rural deanery, Leicester archdeaconry and Peterborough diocese, 1 mile from Saxby station, 111 miles from London and 21/2 east-by-south from Melton Mowbray. Syston and Peterborough railway and the river Eye pass through the chapelry. The chapel is a small old building, with a Pointed tower and 2 bells. The chapelry is annexed to the vicarage of Thorp Arnold. Daniel Thwaites esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey ; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, roots and pasture. The acreage, including Wyfordby, is 1,336 ; rateable value, £2,427 ; in 1881 the population was about 51.
Parish Clerk, John Gray.
Letters through Melton Mowbray, which is the nearest money order office.

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