DALBY-on-the-WOLDS, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER,
6 miles (N.W. by W.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing
357 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Old Dalby,
and in the patronage of Lord Feversham. The church is
dedicated to St. John the Baptist. A preceptory of
Knights Hospitallers was founded, it is supposed, by
Robert Bossu, Earl of Leicester, in the reign of Henry
II.: at the dissolution its revenue was valued at
£91. 2. 8. per annum. Here is a chalybeate spring.