WORTHINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of BREEDON,
western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE,
county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (N. E.) from Ashby de
la Zouch, containing, with the liberty of Newbold,
1257 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln,
endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of Lord Scarsdale.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Matthew. Worthington
is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and
within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury
every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts
under 40s.