ASHBY-FOLVILLE, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing, with the chapelry of Barsby, 405 inhabitants, The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of the Rev. J. Brown. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here is an hospital, founded by the Carrington family.