QUORNDON, a chapelry in the parish of BARROW-upon-SOAR,
western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE,
county of LEICESTER, 1 mile (N. W.) from
Mountsorrel, containing 1503 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £ 400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Barrow. The church is dedicated
to St. Bartholomew. Baptists and Primitive and
Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of worship
here. Stocking weaving and the manufacture of warp
and bobbin twist lace afford employment to a great
portion of the inhabitants. The Loughborough canal
passes through the northern part of the parish, and
joins the river Soar. Thomas Rawlins, in 1691, gave a
rent-charge of £45. 10. for apprenticing poor boys,
and to a schoolmaster for teaching six boys.