Ulverscroft Leicestershire Family History Guide
Ulverscroft is an extra-parochial place.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ULVERSCROFT, an extra-parochial tract in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicestershire; 8 miles NW by W of Leicester. Real property, £1,680. Pop., 104. Houses, 20. An Augustinian priory was founded here, in 1130, by R. Bossu; and has left some remains.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ULVERSCROFT, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Mountsorrel; containing 146 inhabitants.
This place lies on the borders of Charnwood Forest, its houses being mostly scattered in a picturesque dale bounded on the east by the rocky hills of the forest, and on the west by those of Bardon. It comprises about 1000 acres of land.
Here are the ruins of a church that belonged to an Augustine priory dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, founded by Robert Blanchmains, Earl of Leicester, in the reign of Henry II., and having at the Dissolution a revenue of £101. 3. 10.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Barrow upon Soar
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- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Barrow upon Soar
- Hundred: West Goscote
- Province: Canterbury