Bescaby
Extract from White's
BESCABY, or Besk Abbey, formerly
an extra-parochial manor, has been constituted a civil parish, and in 1871
had a population of 25 persons, living in 4 houses, on about 1200 acres of
land. It is in Framland hundred, Melton Mowbray
Union and County Court District. The parish belongs to the Duke of Rutland,
and was formerly the demesne of Croxton Priory,
near which there stood here some extensive buildings, surrounded by a moat.
Traces of these buildings are still to be seen, near the place called Friars'
Walk. William Furnival held the manor in 1382,
with a view of frank pledge, as of the Honor of
Winton. The chief branch of the river Eye has its source in this parish,
near Bescaby Oaks ; it
is a fine spring of hard water, and flows in front of
Bescaby House, the residence of Mr. John Edward
Bright.
Post viâ Melton
Mowbry, but
Waltham-on-the-Wolds is the nearest Money Order
and Telegraph Office
Bright John Edward, farmer and grazier, Bescaby House |
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