KIBWORTH-BEAUCHAMP, a parish in the hundred of GARTREE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N. W.) from Market-Harborough, comprising the chapelry of Kibworth-Harcourt, and the township of Smeeton-Westerby, and containing 1372 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £39. 15., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Wilfrid, is a spacious edifice, with a tower supporting a spire nearly one hundred and sixty feet high. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. A free grammar school was founded, in 1709, by Sir Nathaniel Edwards; the school-house was rebuilt in 1775. The Union canal passes through the parish; and at Smeeton-Westerby there is a small chalybeate spring. Dr. John Aikin, an ingenious physician and public writer, (brother of Mrs. Barbauld and of Lucy Aikin, likewise celebrated authoress of several valuable works,) was born here in 17475 and died at Stoke-Newingtou in 1S22.