TWYFORD, a parish in the eastern division of
the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 6
miles (S. by W.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing,
with the chapelry of Thorpe-Satchville, 495 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage with that of Hungerton,
united in 1732, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£ 8.8. 6., and in the patronage of Sir T. H. Apreece, Bart.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.