WALTON-on-the-WOLDS, a parish in the eastern
division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER,
4 miles (E.) from Loughborough, containing 289
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in tlie
king's books at £15, and in the patronage of the Rev.
Augustus Edward Hobart, The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. The river Soar runs through the parish.'