Slawston

Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of Gravestones at All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.

Andrew TATLOW also has a photograph showing some of the All Saints Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2006.

• The parish was in the Great Easton sub-district of the Market Harborough 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church stands at the east end of the village on the road to Blaston.
   
• The church was built in the late 13th Century.
   
• The church was restored in 1864.
   
• The church seats 168.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
   
• Timothy HEATON also has a photograph of Church of All Saints on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2020. The distortion is probably caused by the type of lens used for the photograph.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
   
• A Congregational chapel was built here in 1776 and rebuilt in 1850.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Market Harborough Registration District.
   

Slawston is a village and a parish overlooking the Welland vale, about 15 miles south of Leicester and 6 miles northeast of Market Harborough. The parish covers about 1,500 acres and includes Othorpe hamlet.

If you are planning a visit:

• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Main street on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
   
• Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Two thirds of the parish was pasturage.
   
• Olthorpe hamlet was depopulated, apparently, to make more land available for sheep pasturage.
   
• There was a windmill here in 1637.
   

• The Manor Farmhouse is located in Main Street.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP778946 (Lat/Lon: 52.543895, -0.854702), Slawston 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.

In 1921 a marble mural tablet was erected in the church, inscribed with the names of the parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The residents of this parish have elected to forgo a formal parish council and have periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civil and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
   

• The Common Lands were enclosed here by an act of Parliament in 1793.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
   
• In 1760, Rev. Thomas HOPE left the interest on £100 to be given annually as coal to the poor of the parish.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Uppingham Poorlaw Union.
   
• In 1895. after a district re-organization, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	266
1831	243
1841	250
1871	202
1881	184
1901	145
1971	90

• The children of this parish attended school in Cranoe (Cranehoe), which was built in 1843.
   
• John HOLYOAKE ran a large boarding school in Slawston in the early 18th Century which had as many as 20 young gentlemen from London and elsewhere.