WYFORDBY, or WYVERBY, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (E.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing, with the chapelry of Brentingby, 126 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6, and in the patronage of Sir E. C. Hartopp, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The river Eye and the Oakham canal run through the parish.