Brooksby

Brooksby is a disused village in Leicestershire, England. It is the ancestral home of the Villiers family. Brooksby and surrounding villages was served by Brooksby railway station.

Brooksby Hall is a 16th-century manor house and its church are all that remains of a village that was cleared to enable sheep to be graxed. The church was once the living for Henry Gregg who was married to the writer Mary Kirby. Today the hall has conference and banqueting facilities. Brooksby Melton College offers apprenticeships and further education training courses in animal care, countryside, equine, fisheries, and land based service engineering.