THRINGSTONE, a chapelry, joint with Swannington, in the. parish of WHITWICK, western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (E.) fromAshbyde la Zouch, containing 1171 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Whitwick, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln. The chapel has lately received an addition of four hundred and fifty sittings, of which three hundred and eighty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £450 towards defraying the expense. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan. Methodists.