Bradgate Park Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Bradgate Park is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Broadgate, Broadgate Park

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROADGATE, or Bradgate Park, an extra-parochial tract in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicestershire; 5 miles NW of Leicester. Acres, 1,120. Real property, £1,027. Pop., 9. House, 1. The land is chiefly forest.

This was part of the manor of Groby; belonged to successively the Earls of Leicester, the Earls of Winton, and the Lords Grey of Groby; and was the birth place of Lady Jane Grey.

A large and splendid mansion stood on it; and some picturesque ruins of the edifice still remain, along with a chapel containing a fine monument of the Greys.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Barrow upon Soar
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Barrow upon Soar
  • Hundred: West Goscote
  • Province: Canterbury