Newtown Linford Leicestershire Family History Guide

Newtown Linford is a chapelry of Ratby cum Groby Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Copt Oak

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1654
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Markfield
• Anstey
• Ulverscroft
• Woodhouse Eaves
• Ratby cum Groby
• Bradgate Park
• Swithland
• Barrow upon Soar
• Thurcaston

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWTOWN-LINFORD, a village and a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicestershire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, near Charnwood forest, 3 miles N by E of Kirby-Muxloe r. station, and 5½ NW of Leicester; and has a postal-pillar under Leicester, and a good inn.

The parish comprises 3,990 acres. Real property, £2,572. Pop., 500. Houses, 102. The manor belongs to the Earl of Stamford. Roecliffe Hall is the residence of Sir F. W. Heygate, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Stamford. The church is an old building, with a tower; and was restored in 1860. Charities, £10.

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

Parish Records

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England, Leicestershire, Newton-Linford

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Buildings, dwellings, etc. ( 1 )
Newtown Linford : the old buildings and their occupants
Author: Stevenson, Joan

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of Newton-Linford Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire,England, about 1700-1950

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Newtown-Linford, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Newtown-Linford, 1608-1864
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newtown-Linford (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Newton-Harcourt, church records

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford, church records

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford, church records, 1654-1994
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newtown-Linford (Leicestershire); Leicestershire Record Office

Parish register transcripts, 1654-1809
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newtown-Linford (Leicestershire)

The parish registers of Newton-Linford, Leicestershire, 1677-1679
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newtown-Linford (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Newtown Linford, Leicester, England

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest material, 1716-1817
Author: Newtown-Linford (Leicestershire)

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Probate records ( 2 )
England, Leicestershire, probate records

Probate records, ca. 1580-1858
Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Groby); Leicestershire Record Office

England, Leicestershire, Newtown-Linford – Public records ( 1 )
Parish chest material, 1716-1817
Author: Newtown-Linford (Leicestershire)

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Administration

• County: Leicestershire
• Civil Registration District: Barrow upon Soar
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Groby
• Diocese: Peterborough
• Rural Deanery: Sparkenhoe
• Poor Law Union: Barrow upon Soar
• Hundred: West Goscote
• Province: Canterbury