LEIRE, a parish in the hundred of GUTHLAXTON,
county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from Lutterworth,
containing 435 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £Q. 14. 9-, and in the
patronage of the Countess de Grey. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. A school-room has been erected by a
subscription entered into by the parishioners, to celebrate
the peace in 1814: it is a good brick building, covered
with slate, and capable of accommodating seventy children.
Leire is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of
Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of
pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the
recovery of debts under 40s.