CLAYBROOKE, a parish comprising the chapelry
of Little Wigston, the townships of Great Claybrooke and
Little Claybrooke, the liberty of Bittesby, and the hamlet
of Ullesthorpe, in the hundred of GUTHLAXTON, county
of LEICESTER; and the hamlet of Wibtoft, in the Kirby
division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of
WARWICK, and containing 1312 inhabitants, of which
number, 458 are in the township of Great Claybrooke, 4?
miles (N. W. by W.) from Lutterworth, The living is
a vicarage, .in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £30. 10. 5.,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church,
dedicated to St. Peter, is partly in the decorated, and
partly in the later, style of English architecture. There
is a small endowment for a boys' school, which, with another
for girls, is principally supported by the Dicey family.
At a place termed High Cross, two miles westward,
is the intersection of two great Roman roads,
which traverse the kingdom obliquely. This was the
Roman station Benona, or Fennones.