CROXTON (SOUTH), a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 8 miles (N.E. by E.) from Leicester, containing 316 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland. The church is dedicated St. John the Baptist.