Pickwell Leicestershire Family History Guide
Pickwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.
Other places in the parish include: Leisthorpe and Leesthorpe.
Alternative names: Pickwell with Leesthorpe, Pickwell with Leisthorpe
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1570
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1584
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PICKWELL, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; adjacent to Rutland, 6 miles WNW of Oakham r. station. It contains the hamlet of Leesthorpe; and its post town is Oakham. Acres, 1, 480. Real property, £3, 713. Pop., 169. Houses, 33.
The manor of P. belongs to the Earl of Gainsborough; and that of Leesthorpe, with L. Hall, to A. Smith, Esq.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £527. Patron, the Earl of Gainsborough. The church is a neat building, with a tower.
There are a parochial school and charities £6. Dr. Cave, the author of “Lives of the Apostles” and other works, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
PICKWELL (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Melton-Mowbray, and forming a detached portion of the hundred of Gartree, locally in the hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 5¾ miles (S. S. E.) from Melton-Mowbray; containing, with the hamlet of Leesthorpe, 163 inhabitants.
This parish, which is situated to the south of the road from Melton, through Oakham and Bedford, to London, comprises by measurement 2363 acres. The soil is of various qualities; near the village it is a light red earth, in some parts clay and sand mixed, and in others clay only: the surface is varied with hill and dale. Stone of an inferior kind is quarried for the repair of roads, and fossils have been found.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £16; net income, £519; patron, the Earl of Gainsborough: the glebe consists of about 60 acres of fine land. Dr. William Cave, the Church historian, was born here in 1637.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Melton Mowbray
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Gartree
- Poor Law Union: Melton Mowbray
- Hundred: Gartree (Leicestershire)
- Province: Canterbury