Asfordby or Ashfordby, a parish in Leicestershire, with a station on the M.R., 3 miles W from Melton Mowbray. It has a post office under Melton Mowbray, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1668; population, 717. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £534. The church is a building of stone in the Early English Perpendicular and Decorated styles. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Asfordby Hall is a chief residence.