Willesley

The Swadlincote Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Thomas.
   
• The church was built in the first half of the 14th century.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Thomas's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2008.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1677.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.

"WILLESLEY is about 2 miles and a half from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the same hundred as Measham, part of the parish being cut off by the boundary line of Leicestershire. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal passes here; and a rail-road from Willesley basin to Ticknall, passing Ashby-de-la-Zouch, is a conveyance for coals and lime-stone, worked in this neighbourhood, as well as for the carriage of the Moira spa-water, obtained about two miles from Measham; this water is in considerable repute, its properties being as valuable as the springs at Harrogate. 'Willesley Park', the fine seat of Sir Charles Abney Hastings, is a great ornament to this parish. The population is very inconsiderable, - thirty years ago it contained only 62 inhabitants, in 1821 exactly the same number was returned for the parish, and at the last census, 1831, the increase only amounted to one person."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Which residents are listed in Willesley in 1827-29? Look at the list extracted from from Glover's Directory of the County of Derby 1827-29 on Brett Payne's website.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Willesley entry under Measham from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Willesley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Willesley from the National Gazetteer (1868).
   

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Willesley to another place.

Willesley Hall is a red brick mansion standing in a wooded park of about 155 acres.

Philip JEFFREY has a photograph of the Gateway to Willesley House on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK341147 (Lat/Lon: 52.728873, -1.496491), Willesley which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This parish was abolished in April, 1936, and most of the land was merged into Ashby-de-la-Zouch Civil Parish. The former parish is now considered part of Leicestershire.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty session hearings every other Tuesday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	62
1811	57
1831	63
1841	53
1881	57

The children of this parish attended the schools at Moira, Measham & Packington.