SCALFORD, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing 438 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8.1.10., and in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland. The church is dedicated to St. Egelwin the Martyr.