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Goadby Marwood

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1863

Goadby Marwood, five miles N.N.E. of Melton Mowbray, is a picturesque village and parish, in a pleasant vale, bounded by two bold ranges of Wold hills. It contains 33 houses, 195 inhabitants, and 1565A. 2R. 24P. of land, which is generally fertile clay, except on the north-western hills, which separate it from the Vale of Belvoir, where a red marl prevails. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and principal owner of the soil ; and the remainder belongs to H. C. Bingham, Robert Day, and T. B. Charlton, Esqrs. The Hall, a handsome mansion, in a small park, is the seat of George Norman, Esq. G. Bellars, Esq., is patron, and the Rev. Stevenson Gilbert Bellairs, M.A., incumbent of the rectory, valued in 1535 at £16, and now at £500. The Church is an ancient structure, dedicated to St. Denis, and was erected about 1280. The font and south aisle are of the decorated period, probably about 1320. They are the most beautiful parts of the church, and are well worth the notice of the lover of architecture. The Rev. Francis Peek, M.A., the historian, is buried in the south aisle of this church. Here is a good Rectory House, and 35A. 3R. 20P. of glebe. The tithes were commuted, in 1843, for £429. 18s. per annum. The manor, anciently called Guthebi, and sometimes Gundeby, was successively held by the Wirce, Mowbray, Maureward, Hastings, Beaumont, Villiers, Lowe, and Wyche families, the latter of whom sold it, in 1765, to the Duke of Rutland. A handsome School was erected here in 1861 by the rector, at a cost of £800, and is a great ornament to the village. The Poor's Land comprises 11A. 3R. 16P., in Harby, purchased, in 1702, with £120, which had been left to the poor by various donors. It is let for £24 a year, which is distributed in coals and money by the churchwardens and overseers.

FOOT POST from Waltham at ten morning ; returning at 41/2 afternoon. Bellairs Rev. Stevenson Gilbert M.A. rector, Rectory Browin John, stonemason Brutnell Thomas, carpenter Chamberlain Matthew, tailor Cook William, thrashing machine onr. Norman George, Esq. Goadby Hall	Skellet Charles, shopkeeper Waite Robert, shoemaker & par. clerk Wright John, farm bailiff
	FARMERS Carter John Ellaby Simpson, Bellemere Lodge Elson John Goodwin John	Hallam Edward Huckerby Mary Rowbotham Thos. Walker Samuel, White Lodge Watson Henry

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