MEASHAM, a parish in the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY, county of DERBY, though locally in th& western division of the hundred of Goscote, county of Leicester, Sf miles (S. S.W.) from Ashby de la Zouch, containing 1404 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Hastings. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence, There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is almost surrounded by the river Mease, and the Ashby de la Zouch canal passes through the village.