RATBY, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (W. by N.) from Leicester,
containing, with the township of Botcheston with
Newton, and the hamlet of Grooby, 1025 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in' the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Lord of the Manor of Grooby, rated
in the king's books at £5. 5. 10., endowed with £400
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of
Stamford. The church is dedicated to St. Philip. On
an eminence near the village are the remains of a large
Roman encampment.