Chadwell

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

CHADWELL (or Caldwell, originally Cauldwell or Coldwell from a famous well in the village) and WYCOMBE (or Wykekarn) are two hamlets, locally situated in the centre of Framland Hundred, 5 miles N.N.W. of Melton Mowbray, but forming a chapelry, township, and detached member of East Goscote Hundred, and the parish and Peculiar Jurisdiction of Rothley. They are on the banks and near the source of a rivulet, on the western side of a bold range of the Wold hills, and contain 97 inhabitants, living in 21 houses, on 1730 acres of land. The manorial rights belong to the lord of the manor of Rothley, but the soil is mostly the property of the Duke of Rutland and Messrs. George Ashbourn, Thomas Morris, Frederick Newcome, and Thomas Marshall and Mrs. Stowe. The chapelry has been spelt Cawdwell-cum-Wykeham. and was enclosed in 1777. The Manor House, and about 114 acres of land here, belong to Wigston's Hospital, Leicester, but are held by lessees, under the will of Robert Johnson, Esq., at small reserved rents, amounting only to £13 4s. per annum, though the land is worth upwards of 30s. per acre. (See Leicester.) The CHURCH (St. Mary) is a small ancient building of late Norman architecture, in Chadwell, consisting of nave, chancel, south aisle, and south porch, with a tower, containing three bells. The living is a curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Rothley, and the Rev. S. G. Bellairs, of Goadby Marwood, is curate. The poor have the interest of £20, left by Mrs. Hackett, and ought to have a yearly rent-charge of £3, left by William George Ashbourn, in 1831, out of land belonging to Mr. G. Ashbourn, but it is not now paid.

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