EMPINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of EAST,
county of RUTLAND, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Oakham,
containing 759 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, rated in the king's books at £714. 9., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of the Prebendary of Empingham in the Cathedral
Church of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Peter,
is a handsome edifice, principally in the early English
style, with some later insertions. There is a free school.