BARWELL, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, If mile (N. E. by N.) from
Hinckley, containing, with the chapelries of Potter s-
Marston and Stapleton, 1371 inhabitants. The liviiig
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 20.10.7 ^.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. George Mettam. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place- of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school for teaching
and clothing twenty children is endowed with about
£20 per annum, the bequest of Gabriel Newton, in 1760.