CLAYBROOKE - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CLAYBROOKE, a parish in the hundred of Guthlaxton, in the county of Leicester, and also containing places within the county of Warwick, 4 miles N.W. of Lutterworth, its post town. It includes the townships of Great or Nether Claybrooke, Little or Over Claybrooke, and the hamlets of Bittesby and Ullesthorpe; the last place is a station on the North Midland railway.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value with the curacies of Wibtoft and Little Wigston annexed, £451, in the patronage of the crown. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a Gothic structure, with an embattled tower. There is a chapel of case at Whibtoft, where divine service is performed every other Sunday. There is an endowed National school and other charities. In this parish is a spot which commands a view of about sixty churches. It is supposed to have been the site of the Roman station Venonæ, where the Posse Way and Watling Street intersect."

"WIBTOFT, a chapelry in the parish of Claybrooke, county Warwick, 5 miles N.W. of Lutterworth, and 6 N.W. of Rugby. The village is situated on the Leicestershire border close to High Cross, where the old Roman roads Watling Street and Fosse way meet."

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