SAXBY, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (B. by N.) from Melton- Mowbray, containing 153 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Stapleford, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 5, and in the patronage of the Earl of Harborough. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Melton-Mowbray and Oakham canal passes through the parish. The neighbourhood presents the appearance of having been the scene of some sanguinary contest; the skeletons of horses and men, earthen urns, which are supposed to have contained the hearts of the slain, bridle bits, fibulae, &c., and weapons in use before the introduction of fire arms, having been discovered three feet below the soil, and immediately upon the surface of the gravel, in digging for which the workmen invariably found heaps of pebbles laid upon the bodies.