BREEDON, a parish in the western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N. E. by N.) from Ashby de la Zouch, comprising the chapelries of Worthington and Staunton-Harrold, the hamlets of Tongue and Willson, and the liberty of Newbold, and containing 2630 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the Icing's books at £6. 2. 8., endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Stamford andWarrington. The church, dedicated to St., Mary and St. Hardulph, stands on the summit of an elevated limestone rock, at the foot of which lies the village, where are considerable lime-works. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Breedon 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. By. deed, in 1736, Francis Commins gave £300 towards the support of a school for boys; and Eliz. Commins £583. 1. 4. for a school for girls. A cell for Black canons was founded, soon after 1144, by the prior and monks of St. Oswald, at Nosthall, to whom the church and some lands here had been given by Robert Ferrers, Earl of Nottingham; its revenue, at the dissolution, was £25. 8. 1.; the church which belonged to it is now the parochial church.