KNAPTOFT, a parish comprising the chapelry of
Mowsley in the hundred of GARTREE, the chapelry of
Shearsby, and the hamlet of Walton, in the hundred of
GUTHLAXTON, county of LEICESTER, 7 miles (N.E. by E.)
from Lutterworth, and containing 864 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £32. 12. 6. The Duke of Rutland was patron
in 1817. The church is dilapidated. There are
traces of an ancient encampment in the parish. Dr.
Richard Watson, late Bishop of Llandaff, was one of
the incumbents.