COSSINGTON, a parish in the eastern division of
the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 2f
miles (S. E. by E.-) from Mountsorrel, containing 237 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £ 17. 7. 6-j and in the patronage of T. Babington,
Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The
parish is bounded on the west and on the south by the
rivers Soar and Wreake, near which latter is a large
oblong tumulus, three hundred and fifty feet long, one
hundred and twenty broad, and forty high, and very
steep, extending due north and south, called " Shipley
hill," supposed to be the monument of some Danish
king.