STOCKERSTON, a parish in the hundred of GARTREE, county of LEICESTER, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Uppingham, containing 50 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £13, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Near it, John Boyvile, Esq., in 1465, obtained leave of Edward IV. to erect, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, an almshouse for a chaplain and three poor persons, and to settle lands upon them in mortmain, of the annual value of £10.