STONESBY, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND,
county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (N. E.) from Melton-
Mowbray, containing 246 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£5. 0. 7iv, and endowed with £600 royal bounty. R.
Norman, Esq. was patron in 1820. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter.