BOTTESFORD, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND,
county of LEICESTER, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from
Grantham, containing, with Normanton, 10?0 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £51. 5., and in the patronage of the Duke of
Rutland. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious
cruciform structure, with a tower supporting a
spire at the western end: it has been the burial-place
of the noble family of Manners since the dissolution of
monasteries, at which period several monuments to the
memory of deceased members of that family were removed
hither from the conventual church at Belvoir.
There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. The
Grantham canal crosses the parish. From the discovery
of various relics of antiquity, this place is supposed to
have been occupied by the Romans. In 1711, the Rev.
Abel Ligonier and Anthony Ravell bequeathed land for
the instruction of twenty-eight children.