Slawston (All Saints)
SLAWSTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 5¾ miles (N. E. by N.) from Harborough; containing 250 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 5. 7½.; net income, £174; patron, the Earl of Cardigan; impropriators, the family of Tailby, and others. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1793.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.