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Orton on the Hill
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Description in 1871:
"ORTON-ON-THE HILL, a village and a parish in Market-Bosworth district, Leicester. The village stands near the boundary with Warwickshire, 3 miles E of Polesworth r. station, and 4 N of Atherstone. The parish comprises 2,290 acres. Post-town, Atherstone. Real property, £2,779. Pop., 334. Houses, 79. The property is divided. The manor, with Orton Hall, belongs to the Rev. D. S. Perkins. The parish is a meet for the Atherstone hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £236. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is old and tolerable, and has a tower and spire."
John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
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- The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth 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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1861 | R.G. 9 / 2264 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3240 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2506 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Edith.
- The church was built in the twelfth century.
- The church seats 250.
- David ROGERS has a photograph of Saint Edith's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
- Geoff PICK also has a photograph of Saint Edith's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1594 for baptisms and marriages and from 1554 for burials.
- The Bishop's Transcripts cover 1604 - 1887 with gaps.
- The church is in the rural deanery of Akeley (southern division).
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
Orton on the Hill is a village and a parish which lie 106 miles north of London, 7 miles west of Market Bosworth and 4 miles north of Atherstone. The parish bordered Warwickshire to the west and covered about 2,033 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A444 trunk road north out of Nuneaton and at Twycross, turn west onto the county road into Orton on the Hill.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Orton on the Hill to another place.
- Parliamentary troops visited the parish during the Civil War in 1643 and took several horses from the locals.
- Geoff PICK has a photograph of the Unicorn Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
- These are the names associated with the Unicorn Inn in various directories:
Year Person 1849 -- Not listed -- 1881 -- Not listed -- 1912 Harry RUDIN 1925 Joseph RUDIN
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK304039 (Lat/Lon: 52.632008, -1.552271), Orton on the Hill 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 Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- In March, 1855, this Civil Parish gained several acres from Merevale Civil Parish in Warwickshire.
- In April, 1935, this Civil Parish was abolished and all 2,033 acres were amalgamated with Twycross Civil Parish.
- You can contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to help with family hisotry searches.
- District governance is provided by the Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sparkenhoe (Market Bosworth) petty session hearings each week, alternating between Hinckley and Market Bosworth.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1786.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.