APPLEBY, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"APPLEBY, a parish in the hundred of Sparkenhoe, in the county of Leicester, partly also in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, 6 miles to the S.W. of Ashby-de-la Zouch. Atherstone is the post town. It lies near the point at which the four counties of Derby, Leicester, Stafford, and Warwick meet, and not far from the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £750, in the patronage of G. Moors, Esq.

The church, which is old, stands in Leicestershire, and is dedicated to St. Michael. It contains a monument to one of the Applebys. There is a free grammar school, established and endowed in 1669, by Sir John Moore, an alderman of London. It has an income of £326. The school-house was erected after a design by Sir Christopher Wren. Appleby Hall is the principal residence. The Atherstone hounds meet here."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]