PICKWELL, a parish forming a detached portion
of the hundred of GARTREE, being locally in
that of Guthlaxton, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles
(S. S. E.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing, with the
hamlet of Leesthorpe, 167 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £16, and in
the patronage of Sir G. Noel, Bart. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. Dr. William Cave, an eminent
church historian, was born here in 1637.