GRIMSTON, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing 200. inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy with the vicar~ age of Rothley, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Lord of the Manor of Rothley, endowed with £400 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. John.