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As described in 1877:
"ULLESTHORPE, a hamlet in Claybrooke parish, Leicester; on the Rugby and Leicester railway, 3¼ miles NW of Lutterworth. It has a post-office under Lutterworth, a r. station with telegraph, and two dissenting chapels; and it carries on malting and framework knitting. Real property, £3,639. Pop., 600. Houses, 141."
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72"].
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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 and Volume 18 covers the Lutterworth District which includes Ullesthorpe
. - The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1861 | R.G. 9 / 2245 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3221 |
- Look for Anglican parish register entries in Claybrooke.
- The Congregationalists built a chapel here in 1806.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837, but this place wasn't a Civil Parish until 1866.
- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
Ullesthorpe is a small village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. The parish lies 3.5 miles north-west of Lutterworth. Most of the parish land was used for pasturage. The parish covers about 1,490 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the M1 motorway to Lutterworth and pick up the B577 arterial heading north to reach Ullesthorpe village.
- The village is known for its windmill. Michael WESTLEY has a photograph of a wind=powered mill on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.
- Railway service ended in 1962.
- Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Ullesthorpe to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP505877 (Lat/Lon: 52.484891, -1.257774), Ullesthorpe 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 hamlet Claybrooke parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish in December of 1866.
- The parish is in the ancient Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- On 17 December, 1877, this parish was enlarged by gaining the Manor House portion of Monks Kirby Civil Parish in Warwicshire.
- On 1st April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by gaining 3 acres from Wibtoft Civil Parish in Warwicshire.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth petty session hearings every other Thursday.