BOSWORTH (HUSBAND'S), a parish in the
hundred of GARTREE, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles
(W. S.W.) from Market-Harborough, containing 817 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £24. 15. 7., and in the patronage of the Rev.
J. T. Mayne. The church, dedicated to All Saints, had
its spire greatly damaged during a storm of thunder
and lightning, in July 1755. There are places of worship
for Particular Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists.
The river Welland bounds the parish on the south
and south-east, and the Avon on the north-west; and
the Grand Union canal crosses the western part of it,
being here conducted through a tunnel, one thousand
one hundred and seventy yards in length, to the northern
side of the village.