ELMSTHORPE, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (N. B. by E.) from Hinckley, containing 46 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Barwell, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4. The church is desecrated, the ruins having been converted into a barn.