HIKCKLEY, (Leicestershire) near Watling-Street way, 3 m. from Bosworth, 79 cm. 91 mm. from London, has a Mt. on M. and Fairs on the 3d M. after Twelfth-day, and on Aug. 18. The assizes were held here formerly, and a castle was built here by Hugh Bigot, the first Earl of Norfolk, which was therefore called Hugh's-Castle, but there are no traces of it now, except some trenches and rampiers cast up to a great height at the E. end of the Ch. The manor was given to the mon. of Nun- Eaton, but at the Diss. Henry VIII. granted it to Edward Ld. Clinton and Say, and to Sir Robert Terwhite, who sold it to William Wightman, whose heir held it in 1622.