HIGHAM-on-the-HILL, a parish in the hundred of
SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (W. by
N.) from Hinckley, containing, with the hamlet of Lindley,
533 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £7. 9. 4. Thomas Fisher, Esq.
was patron in 1792. The church is dedicated to St.
Peter. The Ashby de la Zouch canal passes through
the parish. In 1607, a great many silver coins of the
reign of Henry HI. were discovered, on turning up a
large stone which lay at the intersection of Watlingstreet
with another road leading to Coventry: several
Koman coins, a gold ring with a ruby, another with an
agate, and a third of silver, with an Arabic inscription,
were found here about the same period.