PACKINGTON, a parish partly in the hundred of
REPTON-and-GRESLEY, county of DERBY, but chiefly in
the western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county
of LEICESTER, 1 mile (S. by E.) from Ashby de la
Zouch, containing, with the hamlet of Snibston, 702
inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £5. 15. 10., and in the patronage of
Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart. The church is dedicated
to the Holy Rood.