Brooksby, Leicestershire

Location Map

Brooksby is a hamlet in Leicestershire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Brooksby within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Brooksby in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Brooksby, par. and ry. sta., N. Leicestershire, on river Wreak, 9 miles NE. of Leicester, 861 ac., pop. 67. Near the sta. is Brooksby Hall, birth place of the Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), favourite of James I.

Brooksby in the Domesday Book

A village in Goscote hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

BritishPlaceNames.uk is a Good Stuff website.