Saltby

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1863

Saltby, a village above the chief branch of the river Eye, on a bold declivity of the Wolds, 31/2 miles E. by N. of Waltham-on-the-Wolds, and 9 miles N.E. by E. of Melton Mowbray, has in its parish 59 houses, 292 inhabitants, and 2325A. 1R. 2P. of land, mostly clay and partly moor, and extending eastward to Saltby Heath, on the borders of Lincolnshire. It has a chalybeate spring, and the soil and manor belong to the Duke of Rutland, who is also impropriator of the rectory, and patron of the discharged vicarage, which is annexed to that of Sproxton. All the tithes were commuted for land, at the enclosure, in 1771. The Church (St. Peter) is an ancient fabric, in the perpendicular style, with a square tower. It was fitted up with new open benches in 1850, and has 2A. 1R. 1P. of land for its reparation, allotted at the enclosure, when 2R. 17P. were awarded to the parish clerk ; and 2A. to provide stone for the roads and herbage for the poor. The latter is now wholly occupied in garden plots by the poor. The Wesleyans have a chapel here, which was enlarged in 1845. The parish feast is on the Sunday after Old St. Peter's day. The church was appropriated to Drax Priory, in Yorkshire, and the vicarage was augmented with a parliamentary grant of £200 in 1803. Roger de Busli held the manor in 1086, and it was afterwards held by Croxton Abbey, and was granted at the dissolution to the Earl of Rutland.

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