CLAXTON, or LONG-CLAWSON, a parish in the
hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles
(N. N. W.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing 678 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £ 9. 10.2., and in the patronage of
Lord F. Osborne. The church is dedicated to St. Remigius.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Here are two free schools, toward the endowment
of which Anthony Wadd gave certain lands, in 1758,
now producing a considerable income: for the same
purpose,.in 1772, Mrs. Briggs bequeathed £100, and
the Duke of Rutland gave £21 towards the erection of
a schoolroom.