KILBY, a parish in the hundred of GUTHLAXTON,
county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (S.S.E.) from Leicester,
c ontaining 409 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, endowed with £500 private benefaction,
£1000 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of Sir H. Halford, Bart. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.