LOCKINGTON, a parish in the western division of
the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 7 miles
(N. W. by N.) from Loughborough, containing, with the
township of Hemington, 627 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£6. 7. 3., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Trustees
of the late Rev. P. Story. The church is dedicated to St.
Nicholas. The navigable river Trent flows along the
northern, and the Soar along the eastern, boundary of
this parish, at the north-east angle of which they form
a junction.