BELGRAVE, a parish comprising the chapelry of South Thurmaston in the eastern, and the chapelry of Birstall in the western, division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, if mile (N. N. E.) from Leicester, and containing 1904 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 13. 6. 8., endowed with £ 8 per annum and £ 600 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. This parish is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. The river Soar, or Leicester canal, which is navigable for barges, and over which there is a bridge, forms a junction with the Melton-Mowbray Navigation, by means of an artificial cut, immediately after its course through the parish. Traces of the Roman Fosse-way are visible in the vicinity. Belgrave gives the title of viscount to Earl Grosvenor.