WIMESWOULD, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 5
miles (N. E. by E.) from Loughborough, containing
1061 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lin-
coln, rated in the king's books at £9, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity
College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Joseph Thompson, in 1733, bequeathed land,
directing the rents to be applied in support of a school
for ten boys.