EARL-SHILTON, a chapelry and a sub-district in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Kirkby-Mallory parish; and lies 2 miles N of the Hinckley and Leicester railway, and 4 NE by E of Hinckley. It has a post office‡ under Hinckley. Acres, 920. Real property, £7, 471. Pop., 2, 176. Houses, 480. The manor belongs to the duchy of Lancaster, and had formerly a Norman castle. The stocking manufacture is largely carried on; and the introduction of machinery to it occasioned a decrease of population, by migration, between 1851 and 1861. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Elmsthorpe, in the diocese of Peterborough. There are four dissenting chapels, a school with £36 from endowment, and other charities with £78.—The sub-district includes also Elmsthorpe parish, and Barwell township. Acres, 4, 860. Pop., 3, 579. Houses, 789.

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