COSTON, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 7 miles (N.E.byE.) from Melton- Mowbray, containing 162 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £16. 6.3., and in the patronage of the Crown, The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.