RATCLIFFE-on-the-WREAK, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Leicester, containing 124 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £.7. 16. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Botolph. The Fosse-road passes through the parish, and the Leicester and Melton-Mowbray canal touches upon its eastern boundary.