MEDBOURNE, a parish in the hundred of GARTREE,
county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (W. by N.) from
Rockingham, containing, with the chapelry of Holt, 514
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king s
books at £35. 11. 0., and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of St. John's CoUege, Cambridge;
The church is dedicated to St. Giles. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Sarah Moyses, m
1761, bequeathed £800; Thomas Hawkes, in 1785, left
£200; and Robert Wade gave a rent-charge of £2;
for teaching poor children, and providing them with
books. In a field north-westward from the village are
the remains of intrenchments, with foundations of buildings,
covering a piece of ground about half a mile square.
In 1721, a tesselated pavement was discovered, ana
other Roman remains have been dug up at differen
times,