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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wycomb like this:
WYCOMB and CHADWELL, a chapelry in Rothley parish, Leicester; 2¼ miles SW of Sileby r. station. Post town, Rothley, under Loughborough. Acres, 1,730. Real property, £1,309. Pop., 139. Houses, 27. The living is annexed to Rothley.
Wycomb is now part of MELTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how MELTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wycomb itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wycomb, in Melton and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24719
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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