BURROUGH, a parish in the hundred of GARTREE,
county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (S.) from Meltqn-Mowbray,
containing 183 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and. diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at. £12, and in the
patronage of W. Hanbury, Esq. The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, contains a circular font. Camden has fixed
the Roman station Fernometum at this place, inferring
also, from the meaning of ..the word, that here was. a
temple to one of the heathen deities: the summit of
Burrough hill exhibits traces of an encampment, the
lines of which enclosed an area of eighteen acres, now
under cultivation.