BARKBY, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N. E.) from Leicester, containing, with the chapelries of Barkby-Thorpe and North Thurmaston, 719 inhabitants. The living is a. vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of George Pochin, Esq.