SWITHLAND, a parish in the western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 2 miles (S.W. by W.) from Mountsorrel, containing 336 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of Grooby, under the Commission of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, rated in the king's books at £10. 4. 7. and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard, There are quarries of slate in the parish. Swithland has ari interest in the endowed school at Mountsorrel.