GOADBY-MARWOOD, a parish in the hundred of
FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N.N.E.)
from Melton-Mowbray, containing 171 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £16,
and in the patronage of Mrs. Ann Stafford. The church,
dedicated to St. Denis, has portions in the decorated
style of architecture. Many Roman coins and urns,
with the head of an arrow, and human bones in abundance,
have been discovered at different times; and a
skull of extraordinary size, the teeth perfectly white,
complete in number, and the whole double, was found,
about 1813, at the depth of seven feet below the surface.