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John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 870-72":
"FROWLESWORTH, a parish in Lutterworth district, Leicester; near the river Soar, the Midland railway, and the Fosse way, 2 miles SSW of Broughton-Astley r. station, and 5 NNW of Lutterworth. It has a post office under Lutterworth. Acres, 1,496. Real property, £3,635. Pop., 291. Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £457. Patron, the Rev. S. L. Noble. The church is ancient and tolerable. Chief Baron Smith's almshouses have £541; and other charities £3."
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- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 598 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2245 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3221 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2489 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
- The church may have originally been built before the Norman Conquest.
- The church was restored in 1887.
- The church tower was restored in 1895.
- The church seats 160.
- Geoff PICK has a photograph of St. Nicholas' Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2005.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of St. Nicholas' Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second portion).
- Free REG has a database for accessing the 1538-1837 marriages, and the 1582-1870 baptisms.
- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Frolesworth is a parish and a village located 92 miles north of London, 2 miles north of Ullesthorpe and 3 miles south of Broughton Astley. The parish covers 1,515 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the B4114 off the A5 (Whatling Street), north past Sharnford and turn right after that village to find Frolesworth.
- J. THOMAS has a photograph of Frolesworth Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
- Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Frolesworth to another place.
- John SMITH, a distinguished judge and later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, was born in this parish in 1656.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP503906 (Lat/Lon: 52.510978, -1.260282), Frolesworth 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.
There is a brass tablet in the parish church to Samuel Grime RECORD who died in the 2nd Boer War, 21 Oct. 1900.
There is a wooden "battlefield cross" in the parish church as a memorial for Captain Alan E. BOUCHER of the 9th Btn, Leicester Regt.who lost his life on 25 June 1916.
There is also inside the church a framed copy of the painting by George H. SWINSTEAD "The White Comrade", showing a wounded WW1 soldier being held upright by one comrade with a white angel behind
There is a three-light stained glass window in the church, commemorating the four men from the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918.
- The name "Frolesworth" is the currently accepted spelling, but you will find many records filed under the old spelling: "Frowlesworth".
- This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish lies in the Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- The citizens of this parish do not have a formal Parish Council. Instead they hold periodic Parish Meetings to debate civic and political issues.
- District governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth petty session hearings every other Thursday.
- In 1726, the will of Baron John SMITH provided funding for 24 almshouses for widows. There was a small chapel attached to the almshouses where weekly services were held.
- Ian ROB has a photograph of the Almshouses dating from 1761 on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.