a town of Leicestershire in England, 110 miles from London. It is the second town in the county, and was in the Saxons' time a royal village. Its market is on Thursday; and its fairs are on April 25th, May 28th, August 11th, and November 2d. It has a large church, and a free school; besides a charity school for 80 boys and another for 20 girls. It has been very much reduced by fires; but is still a very agreeable town, with rich meadow-ground, on the Fosse, which runs here almost parallel with the river Soar. The new canal has made the coal-trade here very extensive.