ENDERBY, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (S. W.) from
Leicester, containing 1143 inhabitants. The living ig>ar
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books s,t
£10. 8. 9. C. L. Smith, Esq. was patron in 1824. The
church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a
chapel of ease at Whetstone, in this parish. A school for
thirty poor children was endowed with a house and £20
per annum, by Richard Smith, Esq., in 1762. Towards
the south-east, the parish is bounded by the river Soar.