SPROXTON, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Melton- Mowbray, containing 372 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, consolidated with thatf of Saltby, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7.4.4., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The small river Eye runs through the parish.