Whetstone (St. Peter)
WHETSTONE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Blaby, hundred of Guthlaxton, S. division of the county of Leicester, 5ΒΌ miles (S. S. W.) from Leicester; containing 956 inhabitants. This parish, which is bounded on the north-west by the river Soar, comprises 2300 acres. Its soil is principally sand, alternated with clay of good quality for brick-making, for which there are some kilns; the surface is generally level. A small number of the population is employed in frame-work knitting. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Enderby: the tithes were commuted for land in 1764.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.