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Willesley history
Willesley is mentioned as a significant manor in the Domesday book. The village was once a stately home called Willesley Hall built of red brick. Little of the manor remains today, although the church and Willesley Lake both remain.
The Abney and Hastings family
The Abney family required that owners of the manor should be called Abney. Twice there has had to be a special Act of Parliament for people to add the name Abney to their surname. Sir Charles Abney Hastings was the last person descended from the Abney line.
19th and 20th centuries
In 1897 the counties of Leicestershire and Derbyshire corrected their boundaries to remove enclaves. The ancient parish of Willesley became a civil parish in 1866, but in 1936 the civil parish was abolished. Almost all of the parish was absorbed into Ashby de la Zouch.
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