Ashby-Folville, a lordship and a parish in Leicestershire. The lordship lies on an affluent of the river Wreak, 2 1/2 miles NW of John-o'-Gaunt station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railways, and 6 1/2 SW of Melton-Mowbray. Acreage, 1796; population of the civil parish, 115; of the ecclesiastical, 316. The parish includes also the chapelry of Barsby, and its post town is Melton-Mowbray; money order office, Twyford; telegraph office, John-o’-Gaunt railway station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £250. The church is of the 14th century, and unusually large and fine, and was restored in 1875. The Carington mortuary chapel contains handsome altar tombs with recumbent effigies. The almshouses here were founded by Lord Carington 200 years ago, and have an income of £100 per annum.