Ab-Kettleby, a township and a parish in Leicestershire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Wreak, at Broughton Hill, 2 1/2 miles from Grimston station on the M.R., 2 3/4 from Scalford station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. joint lines, and 3 NW by N of Melton-Mowbray, and has a post office under Melton-Mowbray, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Grimston. Acreage, 870 ; population of the civil parish, 242; of the ecclesiastical, 472. The parish contains also the township of Holwell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £300 with residence. The church, an old building of stone in the Norman style, belonged anciently to Laund Priory, was restored in 1883, and has a tower and spire. There is a Wesleyan chapel.