THURMASTON (NORTH), a chapelry partly in the parish of BARKBY, and partly in that of BELGRAVE, eastern division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Leicester, containing 192 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of George Pochin, Esq. The chapel is dedicated to St. Matthew. There was anciently another, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. There is a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists. The petty sessions for the eastern division of the hundred of Goscote are held here. The Leicester and Melton-Mowbray navigation, and the old Fosse road, pass in the vicinity. The most ancient Roman milliarium known in Britain was found here; it is three feet and a half high, and five feet seven inches in circumference, and has been placed on a pillar in the town of Leicester.