SKEFFINGTON, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 9
miles (W. by N.) from Uppingham, containing 169 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £ 12.13. 9., and in the patronage of the Rev.
George Cram. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas
a Becket.