WILLESLEY, a parish forming, with the parishes
of Measham and Stretton en le Fields, a detached
portion of the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY,
county of DERBY, being locally in the western division
of the hundred of Goscote, county of Leicester, 2
miles (S. W. by S.) from Ashby de la Zouch, containing
62 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, endowed with £20 per annum private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart. The church is dedicated
to St. Thqmas. The Ashby de la Zouch canal
skirts the south-western boundaryof the parish, whence
a rail-road passes to that town. Willesley is in the
honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within
the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury
every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under
40s.