WHITWICK, a parish in the western division of
the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5
miles (E. by S.) from Ashby de la Zouch, containing,
with the chapelry of Thririgstone with Swannington,
2858 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
with the perpetual curacy of Thringstone with Swanniugton
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9.14.7-,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the King, as Duke of
Lancaster. The church is dedicated to St. John the
Baptist. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists.