Hallaton Leicestershire Family History Guide
Hallaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1563
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1564
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Protestant Dissenters.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HALLATON, a village and a parish in the district of Uppingham and county of Leicester. The village stands on a slope, 3 miles NNW of Medbourne r. station, and 6 WSW of Uppingham; was once a market town; and has now a post office under Uppingham, and fairs on Holy Thursday and on the third Thursday after.
The parish Comprises 2, 360 acres. Real property, £, 581. Pop., 696. Houses, 167. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Calverly Bewicke, Esq. Remains of an ancient encampment, called Hallatoncastle hill, of considerable extent, and comprising a conical eminence 118 feet high, once surmounted by a keep and engirt with ramparts and ditches, are about a mile W of the village; and vestiges of another are near it.
The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Blaston-St. Michael, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £741. Patrons, Bewicke, Esq., and the Rev. G. O. Fenwicke. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire; and contains an old font, sedilia, and monuments to the Vowes, the Bewickes, the Fenwickes, and the Dents.
There are an Independent chapel, a national school, endowed with £25, alms houses with £50, and other charities with £444.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Uppingham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Gartree
- Poor Law Union: Uppingham
- Hundred: Gartree (Leicestershire)
- Province: Canterbury