BARKSTONE, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND,
county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (S. E. by E.) from
Bingham, containing 341 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£7. 5. §., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Duke of Rutland. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul. The Grantham and
Nottingham canal passes through the parish. Daniel
Smith endowed a school for the instruction of sixteen
boys and sixteen girls.