LINDLEY, a hamlet, formerly a chapelry, in Highamon-the-Hill parish, Leicester; near Watling-street, 3¼ miles WNW of Hinckley. Pop., 76. Lindley Hall was formerly the seat of Hardwick, who guided the Earl of Richmond to Bosworth field; was also the residence of W. Burton, the county historian, and of his brother Robert, the author of the "Anatomy of Melancholy; ''and is now the seat of Vincent Eyre, Esq. The quondam chapel is now a cow-house.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))