GREETHAM, a parish in the hundred of ALSTOE,
county of RUTLAND, 6 miles (N. E.) from Oakham,
containing 541 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of
Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £5. 3. 9.,
and endowed with £500 three per cent, annuities, private
benefaction. The Earl of Winchelsea was patron in
1822. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.