AYLESTONE, a parish partly in the hundred of
GUTHLAXTON, and partly in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, 2 miles (S. by W.) from
Leicester, containing, with the chapelries of Glen Parva
and Lubbesthorpe, 749 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £31. 8. 11., and
in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland. The church
is dedicated to St. Andrew. The chapel at Lubbesthorpe
has fallen to decay, and the inhabitants resort for divine
service to the church at Aylestone, but pay no tithes,
whence the place has been deemed extra-parochial. The
Union canal passes through the parish, soon after which
it joins the river Soar.