Beau-Manor, an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (SW) from Loughborough; containing 87 inhabitants. This place was anciently the residence of the Beaumont family, who, in 1389 and 1390, had the honour of entertaining Richard II. and his Queen at their mansion called Beau-Manor Park; it afterwards became the residence of Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, niece of Henry VIII., and mother of Lady Jane Grey, and subsequently of Sir William Hericke, one of the tellers of the exchequer in the reign of James I.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
