REARSBY, a village and a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester. The village stands near the Syston and Peterborough railway, and near the river Wreak, 7 miles W S W of Melton-Mowbray; and has a post-office‡ under Leicester, and a r. station. The parish comprises 1,800 acres. Real property, £3, 933. Pop., 468. Houses, 110. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to W. A. Pochin, Esq. There is a wharf on the river. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £720.* Patron, the Rev. T. Hassall. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, two schools, and charities £8Sacheverelle, noticed in Walker's History, wasrector.

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