WHETSTONE, a parish in the hundred of GUTHLAXTON,
county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from
Leicester, containing 883 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Enderby,;
in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The river Soar
bounds the, parish on the north-west.