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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brentingby like this:
BRENTINGBY, a chapelry in Wyfordby parish, Leicester; on the river Wreak, the Oakham canal, and the Midland railway, 2 miles E of Melton-Mowbray. Post Town, Melton-Mowbray. Pop., 54. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Thorpe-Arnold, in the diocese of Peterborough.
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Wyfordby | 0 | 2 |
Freeby | 0 | 2 |
Burton Lazars | 4 | 2 |
Thorpe Arnold | 0 | 2 |
Stapleford | 0 | 2 |
Melton Mowbray | 3 | 3 |
Saxby | 0 | 2 |
Sysonby | 0 | 2 |
Little Dalby | 0 | 3 |
Scalford | 0 | 2 |
Whissendine | 1 | 3 |
Chadwell | 0 | 2 |
Garthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Waltham on the Wolds | 2 | 4 |
Great Dalby | 0 | 3 |
Wycomb | 0 | 2 |
Pickwell | 0 | 2 |
Welby | 0 | 2 |
Stonesby | 0 | 2 |
Framland | 0 | 2 |