Evington

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon 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.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 589
1861	R.G. 9 / 2254
1871	R.G. 10 / 3228
1891	R.G. 12 / 2494 & 2495

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Denis (Denys).
   
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1867.
   
• The entire church was thoroughly restored in 1884.
   
• The church seats 350.
   
• David KELLY has a photograph of St. Denys Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2001.
   
• Stephen SWEENEY also has a photograph of St. Denys Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1601.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
   
• The Calvanistic Methodists built a gothic chapel here in 1837. It appears that the Particular Baptists took over this chapel by 1912.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the Baptist Church in Evington on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   

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

Evington is a village and a parish on the edge of the conurbation of Leicester City. It lies 3 miles east of Leicester center and about a mile north of Watling Street. The parish covered about 1,190 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Evington village is at the B667 arterial road where it meets the A47 out of Leicester city.
   

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

• Evington Hall was the residence of Henry Freeman COLEMAN in 1849.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK626030 (Lat/Lon: 52.621166, -1.076733), Evington 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.

• The War Memorial stands at the north-east corner of Evington Village Green. It was unveiled on 25 July 1920.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2007.
   
• J. THOMAS also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken inMay, 2014.
   
• There are 5 Commonwealth War Graves in Evington churchyard: all from World War Two.
   

The Commonwealth War Graves (data from www.CWGC.org) are for:

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire. When civil administartion was introduced, it became a Civil Parish like most others.
   
• This place was in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• In 1881, this parish covered 1,360 acres. By 1891, that had been reduced to 1,190 acres.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and divided between Leicester Civil Parish (1,019 acres), Oadby Civil Parish (155 acres) and Stroughton Civil Parish (17 acres).
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings the first Friday of each month..
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	177
1811	222
1821	257
1831	260
1841	285
1851	293
1871	310
1881	450
1891	239
1901	248
1911	958
1921	1,072
1931	1,802

• The parish boasted two Free Schools in 1849.
   
• One of the Free Schools was replaced by a Public Elementary School built in 1859 for 70 children.
   
• Judgemeadow Community College is a mixed academy secondary school. The English young-adult novelist Bali Rai was a student at this school.