WOODHOUSE, a chapelry in the parish of BARROW-upon-SOAR,
western division of the hundred of
GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (W.) from
Mountsorrel, containing 1067 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £600 royal
bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Barrow. The chapel is dedicated
to St. Mary. There is a place of Worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. Thomas RaWlins, in 1691, left a
rent-charge of £89. 17. for teaching twenty-two children
and supplying them with books, also for apprenticing
one, the residue to be applied to the use of the
poor.