WILLOUGHBY-in-the-WOLDS, a parish in the southern division, of the wapentake of RUSHCLIFFE, county of NOTTINGHAM, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Loughborough, containing 450 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 18. 6:, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. George Davys. The church is dedicated to St. Mary and All Saints. . There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The old Fosse road bounds the parish on the west, near which is a tumulus, called Cross Hill, where , an annual revel is held. According to Horsley, this was the Roman station Fernometum, but Gale and Stukeley place Margidunum here. In a field called Herrings, or Black field, are traces of an old town, where many coins, pavements,. and other relics of antiquity, have been found. In the centre of the village stands a cross, the shaft consisting of one entire stone, fifteen feet high, resting on four steps. Near this place, in the great civil war, a battle was fought, which is commonly termed the battle of Willoughby Field.