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OS grid reference
  
SK6716

Country
  
Post town
  
Shire county
  
Dialling code
  
01664

UK parliament constituency
  
Rutland and Melton

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
LE14

District
  
Borough of Melton

Civil parish
  
Brooksby

Weather
  
9°C, Wind S at 21 km/h, 67% Humidity

Colleges and Universities
  
Brooksby Melton College, Brooksby, Brooksby Melton College, Spinney

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Brooksby is a deserted village in Leicestershire, England. It was the ancestral home of the Villiers family. Brooksby and surrounding villages were served by Brooksby railway station.The population is included in the civil parish of Hoby with Rotherby.

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Brooksby Hall is a 16th-century manor house and its church are all that remains of a village that was cleared to enable sheep to be graxed. The church was once the living for Henry Gregg who was married to the writer Mary Kirby. Today the hall has conference and banqueting facilities. Brooksby Melton College offers apprenticeships and further education training courses in animal care, countryside, equine, fisheries, and land based service engineering.

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References

Brooksby Wikipedia


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