Aston Flamville

• The parish was in the Burbage sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print and Volume 6 covers the Burbage and Earl Shilton sub-district which includes Aston Flamville.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 600
1861	R.G. 9 / 2259
1871	R.G. 10 / 3235
1891	R.G. 12 / 2502

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church was built in the Gothic style and contains a square tower.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1855 and rebuilt in 1873.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   
• Tim HEATON also has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Peter's Lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562. Some sources give 1558.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (second portion).
   
• The Society of Genealogists holds microfiche copies of baptisms from 1763 - 1812 along with details baptisms between 1759 and 1767 at Turville Roman Catholic chapel.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Burbage sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District.
   

Aston Flamville is a village, a township and a parish 95 miles north of London, 2.5 miles east of Hinckley and 9 miles northwest of Lutterworth. The parish covers 1,091 acres.

The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries, with the rest of it in barley, wheat and root crops. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is just east of Burbage and is easily approached on the country roads on the east side of that place.
   

• Geograph
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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Aston Flamville to another place.

• The Manor House was the residence of John William SIMONS, a farmer, in 1881.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP462927 (Lat/Lon: 52.530217, -1.320397), Aston Flamville 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.
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St. Peter's Churchyard contains one Commonwealth war grave from the Second World War.

This is the man in the Commonwealth War Grave:

• This place was an ancient parish of Leicestershire and became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish lies in the Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and have periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political matters.
   
• You may also contact the Blaby District Council, but they will not assist in family history lookups.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Hinckley Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty sessional hearings.
   
• Thomas FREWEN had five almshouses built in 1847.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	108
1881	113
1891	100
1901	77
1911	78
1921	84
1931	107

• The children of this parish attended school in Burbage.