SYSTON, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Leicester, containing 1264 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. 2. 7., endowed with £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vice-Chancellor and Fellows of the University of Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Dame Margaret Thorold, in 1718, gave a rent-charge of £5 for teaching poor children. About a mile south-west of the village is a tumulus, on the eastern side of a Roman road passing through the vicinity.