KIRBY-MUXLOE, a chapelry, with a village, in Glenfield parish, Leicestershire; on a branch of the river Soar, and on the Leicester and Swannington railway, 4½ miles W of Leicester. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leicester. Acres, about 1, 500. Real property, £3, 868. Pop., 315. Houses, 69. The manor belongs to George Pochin, Esq. The Oaks is the seat of R. H. Hurst, Esq. Remains exist of a moated castle of the Hastingses, partly clad with ivy. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Glenfield, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is ancient, and has a low tower.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))