Newbold-Verdon (St. James)
NEWBOLD-VERDON (St. James), a parish, in the union of Market-Bosworth, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2¾ miles (E. by N.) from Market-Bosworth; containing, with the hamlet of Brascote, 660 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £6. 8. 11½.; net income, £500; patron, the Rev. W. W. Greenway. The church has been enlarged. Lord Crewe, in 1720, bequeathed a rent-charge of £20, for teaching children; and the poor have some small sums.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.