Packington Leicestershire Family History Guide
Packington is an Ancient Parish mostly in Leicestershire and partly in Derbyshire.
Other places in the parish include: Coalville and Snibston.
Parish church: Holy Rood
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1677
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575
Nonconformists include: General Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Ashby de la Zouch
- Cole Orton
- Willesley, Derbyshire
- Woodville
- Normanton le Heath
- Ashby de la Zouch Holy Trinity
- Measham, Derbyshire
- Swepstone
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PACKINGTON, a village and a parish in the district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch; the parish chiefly in Leicestershire, but partly in Derbyshire.
The village stands ¾ of a mile E of the boundary with Derbyshire, and 1¼ S of Ashby-de-la-Zouch r. station; and has a post-office under Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish contains also the hamlet of Snibston, and part of the chapelry of Coalville; and comprises 2,020 acres in Leicestershire, and 340 in Derbyshire.
Real property, £24,488; of which £18,502 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,294; in 1861, 1,190. Houses, 242. The decrease of pop. was caused by migration of colliers. Pop. of the Derbyshire portion, 252. Houses, 57. The manor belongs to Lady Edith Hastings. The land and collieries of Snibston belong to a colliery company.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £330. Patron, Lady Edith Hastings. The church is early English; has, at different times, been partly rebuilt; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower.
A very old chapel is in Snibston; and there are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a free school, and charities £59.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
PACKINGTON (Holy Rood), a parish, in the union of Ashby, partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, S. division of the county of Derby, but chiefly in the hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 1½ mile (S. by E.) from Ashby; containing, with the chapelry of Snibston, 1024 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 2000 acres, in equal portions of arable and pasture.
The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £5. 15. 10.; net income, £258; patron and impropriator, Sir C. Abney Hastings, Bart. The church is an ancient structure, with a tower.
There is a chapel of ease at Snibston.
A benefaction of 16 acres of land, now producing £20 per annum, is appropriated to the relief of widows; and the produce of two cottages and some land, amounting to £38 per annum, left by Robert Breedon in 1464, is applied to the repair of roads.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918
Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Ashby de la Zouch
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Akeley
- Poor Law Union: Ashby de la Zouch
- Hundred: West Goscote
- Province: Canterbury