DALBY (PARVA), a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (S.S.E.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing 185 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of E. B. Hartop., Esq. The church is dedicated to St. James.