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BRENTINGBY, a chapelry in Wyfordby parish, Leicester; on the river Wreak, the Oakham canal, and the Midland railway, 2 miles E of Melton-Mowbray. Post Town, Melton-Mowbray. Pop., 54. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Thorpe-Arnold, in the diocese of Peterborough.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bretingby and Wyfordby Parish Leicestershire Ancient County |
| Place: | Brentingby |
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